Mike,
You had posted your query on the ipmitool list, which is different than
the ipmiutil list, which is what you are asking about.
I'll post answers on the ipmiutil list.
Andy
From: Mike Owen [mailto:mjno...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 1:06 PM
To: ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Ipmitool-devel] IPMIutil - Dell PE1955 Blade - remote LAN
Power UpSignal
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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