Rahul Nabar wrote: >> ** First thing you should do in BMC setup is reset to default. The BMCs >> often ship with a weird non-default setting that will cause lots of >> serial port feedback if you try to run a getty on the serial console. >> > > Would ipmitool, or syscfg or another equivalent tool have the way of > setting the BMC SOL? I already set the BMC's IP and pasword using > ipmitool. > > I have ~300 machines so doing this step manually via Ctrl+E is tedious.
SoL can be setup and used quite easily using ipmitool - disabling IPMI-over-serial is another matter (without rebooting, and entering the BMC-control bit of the BIOS) - this seemed to work on the PE1950s which I have access to: ipmitool raw 0x06 0x40 0x02 0xb8 0x84 ipmitool raw 0x06 0x40 0x02 0x78 0x44 AFAIK this issue was only present on some PE1950s, and was probably a problem with Dell's production-time automated testing system (IPMI over serial - not SoL - was set up to carry out various tests, but not turned off again prior to shipping). HTH, Tim. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
