Hi all, 

I am writing an app using ipmitool (among other things) to find out the
type of blades that are on the network.  For each IP address in a given
range, a thread is created so the discovery process is being run
concurrently on many targets.  There is a mutex around the calls to the
ipmi code so only one thread is using the ipmi driver at a time.  

The application is running on Linux using version 1.8.10 of ipmitool.
When it uses ipmitool, it first send an asf ping  to retrieve the IPMI
level supported on the device.  If that is successful, I follow up
sending the following command:

Ipmitool -I lanplus -L ADMINISTRATOR+ -U user -P pass -H
192.168.what.ever fru print  

Most of the time I get back the information I want but sometime it
generates an error.  The BMC will return error code 1:' insufficient
resources for session'.  Here is the output from a -vv invocation  of
the above command:

=======================================
IPMI LAN host 192.168.96.52 port 623

>> Sending IPMI command payload
>>    netfn   : 0x06
>>    command : 0x38
>>    data    : 0x8e 0x04

>> SENDING AN OPEN SESSION REQUEST

>> Console generated random number (16 bytes)
17 22 e1 cf 4a 96 88 c4 b2 7a 2a 46 95 40 bc 54
>> SENDING A RAKP 1 MESSAGE

RAKP 2 message indicates an error : insufficient resources for session
=======================================

Questions:

- I assume this is a resource problem on the target BMC and not with the
ipmitool client on my side.  Following the ipmitool code it seems like
the only place that error code can be set is from the data returned by
the BMC.  Unless I missed something?

- If this is a resource issue on the BMC, what might the problem be?
Too fast at getting back to the BMC after the asf ping?  Too many
connections open on the BMC?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Dick Detweiler


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