Hi,
Complete IPMI noob here. Alas the internet seems a little sparse on actual
step-by-step instructions on configuring IPMI on specific DELL
hardware. Please
could someone help me get started, running IPMI on my blade PE1955 servers?
My end goal is to use IPMI util on a Windows OS machine to send the
following IPMI signal remotely to each of my blades to power them up
individually. I do NOT want to power up/down the actual chassis:
"c:\ipmiutil.exe" reset -u -N xxx.xxx.230.107 -U **** -P ****
Looking at the IPMIutil docs, I don't need a local or remotely installed
IPMI driver, which is excellent, as I'm running non server based Windows OS
here!
My IPMI setup so far is:
DELL chassis with 2 DELL gigabit pass-through Ethernet modules, only second
module is used (right-hand one, when looking at the chassis from the back).
10 x DELL PE1955 blades, circa 2007/2008, all running Windows 7x64 OS
(recently upgraded from Windows XPx64 OS) - not officially supported OS by
DELL, but works fine for us. I'm looking to use the out-of-band technology
so the particular OS is irrelevant.
For testing, I'm trying to access the first blade, via its network
connection, on a static IP address of xxx.xxx.230.107
I pressed ctrl+e after POST load and set the following: (is there anyway to
remotely batch configure this, as I have quite a few blade chassis to do
this to!)
"Enable IPMI over LAN" = enabled
Network Config = "shared" (only NIC1 is connected, as we don't use NIC2
which is just empty on our 2nd pass-through module)
I setup the IP address of the LAN IP to be identical to its OS based static
IP address. Not sure if this is correct?
LAN IP address set to static IP (xxx.xxx.230.107), with correct subnet mask
(255.255.255.0) and correct gateway (xxx.xxx.xxx.1)
setup user id/name = ipmi
setup password = ipmi
I then installed the DELL BMC Utility software on my Win7x64 OS workstation.
(I don't want to use the actual DELL software, just thought it would be
best to test using the official tools first.)
Using IPMISH, I executed the following:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\SysMgt\bmc\ipmish.exe" -ip xxx.xxx.230.107 -u
ipmi -p ipmi sysinfo
I get the following error: "Error(0x6f):BMC is not detected."
Is there some IPMIutil debug executable commands I could use, to provide
someone with some more info here?
The DELL chassis also has fitted a iKVM / DRAC5 module, which has its DRAC
and iKVM network connections set to be static IP addresses as well. iKVM =
xxx.xxx.230.10 / DRAC5 = xxx.xxx.230.20
I have tried turning off my windows firewall and also allowing UDP port 623
through my firewall. I have updated the BMC firmware on the blade servers
to v2.03 from v1.69.
None of the other firmware on the chassis/blade servers has been updated
since it was purchased back in 2008 (not my responsibility..)
I have found on the DELL site that a DRAC/MC update is available (v1.6.0).
We are currently running v1.5.0
I believe the DELL kit I have, does not support PING through IPMI. I'm
really not too sure what I should be doing next or where my setup is
incorrect? For example, I don't understand if I should be setting another
static IP address for the IPMI LAN address and therefore configure my CISCO
switch to support this internal IP range as well?
Thanks very much for reading and hopefully someone knows what to do next /
make it all work!
Thanks,
Mike
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