Hi Mark,

The "IPMI over LAN" was not checked, you were correct. Thanks for pointing this 
out to me! After adding this, everything worked like a charm. Is there a way to 
auto enable this setting, or do we have to go into each machine and check this 
checkbox?

Cheers,
Jim

> On Feb 13, 2017, at 8:06 AM, Mark Wenning <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> R630 is definitely a supported server.   
> Look like it autodetected OK, if you have those settings in the GUI.   One 
> quick thing you might want to check is in the iDRAC -> Network Settings, 
> scroll near the bottom and make sure that "IPMI Over LAN" is enabled.  
> When you tell it to commission, do you see the R630 power on?   You should 
> also be able to click  "Check Power" at the top of the GUI page and see it 
> change to green Power On after a few seconds.  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Wenning
> Technical Partner Manager, Cloud Alliances
> Canonical, Ltd
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Jim Tilander <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I’ve got a Dell R630 server (brand new) that I’m trying to commission. I 
> managed to get the server up and PXE booting so that it got discovered. So 
> I’m trying to change the state from “New” -> “Commissioned”, at which it 
> fails to contact the BMC for power status.
> 
> I noticed that the initial discovery correctly seems to have made a new 
> account “maas” in iDRAC and detected the correct IP address.
> 
> The auto detected settings are:
> 
> IPMI
> LAN_2_0 [IPMI 2.0]
> <correct ip>
> maas
> ********
> 
> I’ve also verified that the account looks good in iDRAC.
> 
> 
> Both /var/log/maas/maas.log and /var/log/maas/regiond.log seems to not 
> contain any useful messages related to IPMI. Am I looking in the right 
> locations? Any ideas what might be not working? I figured that the R630 are 
> “supported” servers?
> 
> Cheers,
> Jim
> 
> 
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