Hi Jeff, > I have double checked the BMC configuration for these nodes, and they > seem to be correct (I can provide screenshots if necessary), > however, I am still unable to communicate with these servers using > IPMI. (eg. ipmipower, ipmiping, etc. all do not work.) and I am not > sure what else I can do. If anybody could help me or point me in the > right direction, I would very much appreciate it!
It's hard to know for sure what the problem could or could not be. But if ipmiping isn't even working, that means something very basic is not configured correctly. Here's some ideas of what to look at: A) ensure that basic networking is setup correctly on both client and server. i.e. valid IP, subnet, MAC, etc. Most use a different IP address from their "main" IP address for the node. Ensure that this IP address can be resolved on the client (i.e. IP converted into MAC address). You can check the ARP cache to see if it's been done correctly. B) ensure IPMI is enabled (most notably LAN_Channel configuration). C) ensure you're using the right networking port. Many motherboards only support IPMI on one of their networking ports if there is > 1. Or sometimes BIOS configs need to be done to determine which port allows IPMI. I've personally worked with Poweredges before, and suspect C above is your problem. You may want to look into the ipmi-oem command manpage and read through some of the extensions in there for "Dell" and any commands that apply to Poweredges. Al On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 17:04 -0800, Jeff Van wrote: > Hello! I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, > but if > not, please let me know where I can direct my question. > > I am currently using MAAS Version 1.9.5+bzr4599-0ubuntu1 with Ubuntu > 14.04.5, with three nodes (all Dell PowerEdge R710). I am currently > trying > to use IPMI version 2.0. > > However, I am unable to power-up these nodes with IPMI, due to an > error: > Failed to query node's BMC - Power state could not be queried: > 10.1.10.134: > connection timeout > > In /var/log/maas/maas.log, an identical error message appears. > > I have double checked the BMC configuration for these nodes, and they > seem > to be correct (I can provide screenshots if necessary), however, I am > still > unable to communicate with these servers using IPMI. (eg. ipmipower, > ipmiping, etc. all do not work.) and I am not sure what else I can > do. If > anybody could help me or point me in the right direction, I would > very much > appreciate it! > > If there's any more useful information that I can provide, please let > me > know. > _______________________________________________ > Freeipmi-users mailing list > Freeipmi-users@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users -- Albert Chu ch...@llnl.gov Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list Freeipmi-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users