Having dug a little deeper into the IPMI spec, I note that the resource problem is generated at the very beginning of ipmitool establishing a session as the managed system sends the error in its RAKP message 2 response. The spec says 'On error, the remote console can attempt to correct the error.
Can or does ipmitool attempt to correct a resource issue? Can I alter its behavior via flags or other methods of invoking ipmitool? Is there something I can do before sending an ipmitool fru print command to free resources on the managed system? For instance, I notice there is a 'Clear Message Flags' command that talks about clearing 'the associated buffer full / message available flags' and flushing 'unread data from the Receive Message Queue or Event Message Buffer'. Can this command help free resources on a managed system? Can I use ipmitool to invoke it? Thanks for your time, Dick -----Original Message----- From: Detweiler, Dick Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:36 AM To: ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Ipmitool-devel] RAKP Insufficient Resources response from aniDRACm610 blade... Andy/Al, Thanks for all your help. It ends up I'm back where I started. A little bit more on what I'm doing. I'm testing with 5 iDrac blades in a Dell m1000e chassis. My program basically uses ipmitool to query an IP range that includes all those BMC's. Some of the IP's in the range don't have ipmi servers listening on the other end (the chassis for instance) ipmitool works fine the first time through after I've power cycled the servers. The next time, I begin to see resource problems with either lan or lanplus mode. My suspicion is I'm either not closing ipmi connections I need to be closing or I'm not respecting some timing. Since I'm in the order of seconds between ipmi commands, I can't imagine it's a timing issue. I've assumed ipmitool takes care of closing connections but maybe I'm assuming too much? Is there an easy way for me to see if the server is ready for another request or a command to close an ipmi session I'm not aware of? Thanks, Dick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
