op 29-10-14 21:27, Albert Chu schreef: > On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 19:47 +0100, Paul van der Vlis wrote: >> Helle Albert and others, >> >> op 27-10-14 17:48, Albert Chu schreef: >>> On Sat, 2014-10-25 at 20:11 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: >>>> Hello Albert, >>>> >>>> op 25-10-14 19:47, Albert Chu schreef: >>>>> Hi Paul, >>>>> >>>>> I doubt there was an issue with reading the wrong values from the BMC. I >>>>> have seen many BMCs where the vendor populates the BMC with "poor" choices >>>>> of default values. In fact, sometimes I've seen vendors populate the BMC >>>>> with illegal values (e.g. 0x1-0x4 are the only legal values, but the >>>>> default value populated in the BMC is 0x7). >>>> >>>> Doesn't bmc-config read the actual used values, but something else? >>> >>> I'm not quite sure what you're asking here. It reads the actual values >>> stored in the BMC during a --checkout. >> >> The BMC did work with me at home. At home I used the bios to configure >> the IP. >> >> After changing the IP in the datacenter with bmc-config the BMC did not >> work anymore. I did only change the network settings (and later ARP >> settings). >> >> Then it's strange I have to edit the Volatile_Access_Mode and >> Non_Volatile_Access_Mode. True? > > It is strange that the motherboard had these as "false" by default.
It did work before I changed the settings. So when this was the setting, it should work with this setting. But it did not. >>>> Is it possible to use a BMC from another vendor? >>> >>> Unlikely, given the BMC is part of the motherboard. >> >> I can buy the motherboard I use with and without a BMC: >> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/QPI/5500/X8DTU-F.cfm >> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/QPI/5500/X8DTU.cfm >> >> CoreIPM says on the website: "coreIPM-LINUX provides a ready to use, >> extremely compact drop in solution for platform management. It is >> specifically targeted towards shelf and appliance management." > > Personally, I've never heard of a 3rd party BMC available. Maybe it has to do with OPMA, what's mostly used with AMD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Platform_Management_Architecture I saw Intel implementations too, e.g.: http://www.tyan.com/Motherboards_S5393_S5393WG2NR Not sure this is the only way, the OPMA article also tell's about PCI based management cards. >>>> Which vendors make nice and good BMC's? >>> >>> To be very honest, most vendors solutions are fine. They all make >>> mistakes though. You can see the history of bugs I've found in vendor >>> solutions here: >>> >>> http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/freeipmi-bugs-issues-and-workarounds.txt >> >> When I see lists like this, I think: "most solutions are far from >> perfect, they maybe work with their proprietary software, but give many >> problems with standards compliant software." > > I should note that most of the bugs are simply that, bugs. I wouldn't > say it's an attempt from the vendor to make IPMI only work with their > proprietary software. They may perform the majority of QA against their > proprietary software, which is part of the problem. I think that's correct. With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer, Groningen http://www.vandervlis.nl _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list Freeipmi-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
