On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 09:04:58AM -0700, Roger Mach wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:20 -0400, John Morrissey wrote: > > I'm trying to get SOL working on a large pile of IBM BladeCenter HS21 > > blades. IPMI seems to be working fine (I can pull chassis information, > > etc. with no problems), but 'sol info' complains about 'Invalid command' > > when I run it: > > While the blades do communicate with the management module in a blade > chassis using IPMI, they don't support doing SOL the way other platforms > do. Instead, to access the serial console you need to telnet to the > management module (MM or AMM), log in and then issue this command: > > console -T system:blade[X] > > Where X is the slot number of the blade. See > https://www-304.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisplay?brandind=5000008&lndocid=MIGR-59728 > for more information and troubleshooting suggestions.
Exactly what I was looking for; thanks, Roger. I'd attached to the console via the MM before, but didn't realize that SOL access via ipmitool(1) wasn't supported. Are any automated (i.e., from a Linux userland) ways of configuring the blades' BIOS SOL settings? We're adding batches of blades on a fairly regular basis, and it would be nice to have the setup be completely automated. john -- John Morrissey _o /\ ---- __o [EMAIL PROTECTED] _-< \_ / \ ---- < \, www.horde.net/ __(_)/_(_)________/ \_______(_) /_(_)__ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
