success... I asked around internally and got pointed to: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&swItem=MTX-6670acbc9db64abea83af45a0a&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN I installed that and now ipmi stats just fine. -mark
Corey Minyard wrote: > Mark Seger wrote: >> It actually turns out one of the systems doesn't - would be helpful >> if there was a way for the ipmi start script to tell me or at least >> put something in the README, but that said, the other system DOES >> have ipmi, at least that's what dmidecode says: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dmidecode | grep IPMI >> IPMI Device Information >> > Can you give all the DMI information for the IPMI device? That's just > the header. > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# modprobe ipmi_si >> FATAL: Error inserting ipmi_si >> (/lib/modules/2.6.9-42.9hp.XCsmp/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si.ko): >> No such device >> >> any suggestions on what to do next? >> > Are you sure the syslog entry you list is from a machine that didn't > work but has an IPMI controller? > > Beyond that, there are flags in the IPMI driver we can turn on to > start debugging, if the above two things don't help. > > -corey > >> -mark >> >> Carol Hebert wrote: >> >>> Hi Mark, >>> >>> Are you sure you have BMCs in all your systems? Based on your system >>> message log, it appears that you may not (except maybe in that one AMD >>> box :-). Do all your systems show IPMI devices with dmidecode? >>> The ipmi device driver and ipmitool are two separate things so >>> installing a new ipmitool version should not affect the driver's >>> success >>> or failure to find a BMC on your system. >>> >>> Thanks, :-) >>> >>> Carol >>> >>> >>> On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 14:01 -0400, Mark Seger wrote: >>> >>>> I found something and I think this is pretty serious. I found that >>>> /etc/sysconfig/ipmi on the systems that the service wouldn't start >>>> on looked nothing like that file on systems it would start on! In >>>> particular, changing the lines: >>>> >>>> IPMI_SI=yes >>>> DEV_IPMI=yes >>>> >>>> to >>>> >>>> IPMI_SI=1 >>>> DEV_IPMI=1 >>>> >>>> now allows ipmi to start, but the device /dev/ipmi0 isn't getting >>>> created. Close digging shows that the ipmitool-1-8.8 rpm was >>>> installed and I didn't realize it and so just installed 1-8.9 on >>>> top of it. Is that where my problems are coming from? >>>> -mark >>>> >>>> Mark Seger wrote: >>>> >>>>> I've installed ipmitool on about 1/2 dozen machines, each a >>>>> different type, all running redhat distros. On one of them, an >>>>> amd box running rhel4.2, it starts just fine but on all the other >>>>> systems, some AMD some not it won't start and the only indication >>>>> is the command 'service ipmi start' returns 'Failed'. If it look >>>>> at the end of /var/log/messages all it says is: >>>>> >>>>> Jul 7 09:35:07 sandbox227 kernel: ipmi message handler version 39.1 >>>>> Jul 7 09:35:07 sandbox227 kernel: IPMI System Interface driver. >>>>> Jul 7 09:35:07 sandbox227 kernel: ipmi_si: Unable to find any >>>>> System Interface(s) >>>>> >>>>> When I run the configure command to initially build I see at the >>>>> very end: >>>>> >>>>> ipmitool 1.8.9 >>>>> >>>>> Interfaces >>>>> lan : yes >>>>> lanplus : yes >>>>> open : yes >>>>> free : no >>>>> imb : yes >>>>> bmc : no >>>>> lipmi : no >>>>> >>>>> Extra tools >>>>> ipmievd : yes >>>>> >>>>> on both the systems it runs on as well as one it doesn't. any >>>>> suggestion how to track the problem down? >>>>> >>>>> -mark >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> >>>>> Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! >>>>> Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, >>>>> along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic >>>>> lameness >>>>> and boredom. 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