Can you do any IPMI operation over the lan, like a get device id?  It 
appears it's not even able to set up the IPMI v2 session.

On many systems, you cannot connect from the system itself, you have to 
connect from another machine.

-corey

Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> Hi list,
> I've got 2 new hp dl320 machines.
> The problem is I'm having a hard time setting up sol on them.
> According to the tech specs these boxen support ilo 2 / ipmi v2 so it
> should be possible.
> In the firmware, we configured ip's for the ilo cards and
> setup an account.
> I can ssh $u...@$ip just fine (though with this method you cannot get
> a login console for the host system), however:
> IPMI_PASSWORD=$pass ipmitool -I lanplus -H $ip -U $user -E sol activate
> gives:
> Error: Unable to establish IPMI v2 / RMCP+ session
> Error: No response activating SOL payload
> I'm not sure, but it looks like the problem (or a related one) is that
> there are no "lan channels" (see below)
>
> I tried:
> ipmitool mc reset cold
> ipmitool mc reset warm
>
> but this did not seem to do anything
>
> This command shows that apparently all channels are not lan channels.
> # for i in `seq 0 1000`; do ipmitool lan print $i 2>&1 | grep -i
> 'invalid' | grep -i 'not a lan channel'; done 
> #
>
>
> Here are the channels that are not "reserved":
>
> een:~# for i in `seq 0 1000`; do res="`ipmitool channel info $i | grep
> 'Type' | grep -v reserved`"; [ -n "$res" ] && echo -e "Chan $i\n$res";
> done
>
> Chan 7 Channel Medium Type   : Unknown (0x60)
>   Channel Protocol Type : KCS
> Chan 14
>   Channel Medium Type   : System Interface
>   Channel Protocol Type : KCS
> Chan 15
>   Channel Medium Type   : System Interface
>   Channel Protocol Type : KCS
> Chan 263
>   Channel Medium Type   : Unknown (0x60)
>   Channel Protocol Type : KCS
> Chan 270
>   Channel Medium Type   : System Interface
>   Channel Protocol Type : KCS
> Chan 271
>   Channel Medium Type   : System Interface
>   Channel Protocol Type : KCS
> Chan 519
>   Channel Medium Type   : Unknown (0x60)
>   Channel Protocol Type : KCS
> Chan 526
>   Channel Medium Type   : System Interface
>   Channel Protocol Type : KCS
> Chan 527
>   Channel Medium Type   : System Interface
>   Channel Protocol Type : KCS
> Chan 775
>   Channel Medium Type   : Unknown (0x60)
>   Channel Protocol Type : KCS
> Chan 782
>   Channel Medium Type   : System Interface
>   Channel Protocol Type : KCS
> Chan 783
>   Channel Medium Type   : System Interface
>   Channel Protocol Type : KCS
>
>
> The upper limit of 1000 is something I made up.  I'm suprised it can
> even go that far.  According to most tutorials channel 1 should be the
> lan (SOL) channel on most systems.
>
> een:~# lsmod | grep ipmi
> ipmi_devintf           13200  0 
> ipmi_si                43756  0 
> ipmi_msghandler        38520  2 ipmi_devintf,ipmi_si
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Dieter
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