Sure, to find the MC dev id you just read the SDR IPMB MC Locator record (shown on the second line of the fruconfig output) to get the IMM FRU information.
However, loading the FRU information from fru device id 0 WILL still give you the baseboard FRU information. So, reading FRU data from FruDeviceId 0 will still work fine, in all IPMI systems, and that is the last section of the output I attached. The baseboard is where all of the devices and sensors connect, so most likely that is really what you want to do anyway. Is that what you meant by FRU updates and appropriate FRU entries? You don't really use the IMM FRU entries except as inventory for that plugin card. Andy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 5:05 PM To: Cress, Andrew R; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Openipmi-developer] FRU dev id on IMM Module Andy, Thanks for the clarification. Wouldn't this configuration pose as a problem: FRU updates are done to the active bmc, w/c is device id 1; yet on bootup, we expect it to be at device id 0. Anyway, to retrive the active bmc device id? Or to determine that the mini-bmc is overriden? The code is used on both type of machines, I have to be able to programmatically detect which device id is actually active and retrieve the appropraite FRU entries. Thanks. Michael, On the Jarrell motherboard where the IMM resides, there is a default mini-BMC and then the IMM plugin with IPMI 2.0 and the advanced features. So, there are actually two BMCs, but only one is active at a time. That is why the IMM has a FRU Device ID of 1, since the mini-BMC occupied FRU ID 0. This should not pose a problem, and attached is the output from 'fruconfig' (from ipmiutil) on a TIGI2U system with an IMM. You can see from the attached immfru.txt that the SlaveAddress/ChannelNumber for the IMM BMC is 20/00, while the SlaveAddress/FruDeviceID is 20/01. The IPMI 1.5 text you reference is similar to text in section 37.7 about the FRU Device ID, and is still true, since the mini-BMC on that motherboard is FRU Device ID 0, but it is inactive. Andy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
