On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:01:32PM -0800, Mike Leong wrote: > Hi, > > From what I've read, it's possible to access the IMPI subsystem via serial > port (COM1). I have a serial concentrator.
The BIOS can use the serial port for console redirection. I don't believe the onboard IPMI controller can. > So, anyone know how to access the IPMI subsystem via the serial > interface? I'm trying to remote power cycle the box. Do you have the ERA/O card for this system? That gives you a third ethernet RJ45 jack which is specific to the ERA/O. Then you use the racadm tool to issue commands to the controller such as "reboot the system". racadm is part of the Management Station software bundle in the OpenManage Server Administrator suite, downloadable from support.dell.com. Without the ERA/O, I don't know how to do remote power cycling of the system itself. You could use the ipmi_watchdog module and a local application to ping the watchdog, but that would be in-band access, not out-of-band via serial or ethernet. > Note: the lan interface support is available on IPMI 1.5 systems. My > machines are 1.0 systems. On the newer PowerEdge x8xx systems which are IPMI 1.5, one of the embedded ethernet NICs also is tied in to the BMC, so you can send commands to it out-of-band. Something like: # ipmitool -I lan -H my-host-bmc -U root -P calvin chassis power off # sleep 5 # ipmitool -I lan -H my-host-bmc -U root -P calvin chassis power on Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
