On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:19:44 -0500 Corey Minyard <miny...@acm.org> wrote:
> 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 Yes I'm connecting from another machine. And indeed, it seems like it cannot connect at all. (even though i can just ssh to the ip) IPMI_PASSWORD=foo ipmitool -I lanplus -H $ip -U $user -E chassis status Error: Unable to establish IPMI v2 / RMCP+ session Error sending Chassis Status command Dieter > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > > Ipmitool-devel mailing list > > Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
