Greetings,
This is my first post to this mailing list and I'm hoping that someone can
help me better understand how to connect to IPMI through a dedicated
management port. I've read pretty much everything I can get my hands on and
I'm still a bit in the dark.
I have 2 servers that will eventually be members of a cluster, and my
initial plan was to use IPMI over LAN for cluster fencing. The servers have
a 'management port' (RJ-45) that I connected to a switch via standard
CAT-5e. I used IPMItool to assign IP addresses/netmask, with the intention
of having a small network specifically for IPMI traffic.
The problem is that I can't connect to any remote machines using the LAN
interface. Using the -vvv option I can see the initial ping-discovery
packet, and it is being sent to the correct address, but nothing ever comes
back. I can only assume that either there is no communication, or I've setup
something wrong.
The strange thing is that the management port does not show up as an
interface when I do an ifconfig -a. However, I'm not sure if it is supposed
to. This isn't a normal NIC, it is supposed to be hooked directly into the
BMC and useable even if the server is powered down. That is why I wanted to
use it for fencing.
Has anyone seen this type of setup before? From what I've read the LAN
interface of IPMI seems to make reference to interfaces that the OS is aware
of. Is SOL what I need in order to use the management interface?
Any help would be appreciated. I can confirm that IPMI is working locally,
it's just getting to a remote machine over the network that is not working.
--
Randall
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