Re: [Freeipmi-users] possible causes for ipmi_ctx_open_outofband: BMC busy
Hi Al, thanks for this info. I now got the info that this user is using FreeIPMI only for Nagios, but is using ipmitool for his cacti monitoring. I assume that he does not use the SDR cache function of ipmitool, as it has to be used manually and that this is the root cause. I told him to use ipmitool sdr dump and then ipmitool -S - I think this will solve his problem. Thanks for your help, Werner On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 10:00 -0700, Albert Chu wrote: Hi Werner, The BMC Busy error code comes directly from the remote system. As you might imagine, it's typically when the BMC has too many IPMI requests to handle and can't handle all of them. That's the scenario I've personally seen them the most on. Al On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 02:15 -0700, Werner Fischer wrote: Hi Al, one of our customers monitors his Supermicro servers with FreeIPMI (with both Nagios using the plugin, and also using cacti). As both Nagios and cacti are monitoring the machines, it could be that two IPMI requests reach the BMC at the same time. For two systems (with X8DT3-LN4F and X8DTL-3F mainboards) he gets many times the following error: ipmi_ctx_open_outofband: BMC busy As it works for other systems, I assume that this could be a hardware problem. But I just wanted to know what the possibles reasons could be for such an error (BMC busy) Best regards, Werner PS: for the SR1625 question I got know feedback yet. I assume that the new beta works, but this customer can tell me for sure in about two weeks (than he can test the current beta) -- : Werner Fischer : Technology Specialist : Thomas-Krenn.AG | The server-experts : http://www.thomas-krenn.com | http://www.thomas-krenn.com/wiki ___ Freeipmi-users mailing list Freeipmi-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
[Freeipmi-users] possible causes for ipmi_ctx_open_outofband: BMC busy
Hi Al, one of our customers monitors his Supermicro servers with FreeIPMI (with both Nagios using the plugin, and also using cacti). As both Nagios and cacti are monitoring the machines, it could be that two IPMI requests reach the BMC at the same time. For two systems (with X8DT3-LN4F and X8DTL-3F mainboards) he gets many times the following error: ipmi_ctx_open_outofband: BMC busy As it works for other systems, I assume that this could be a hardware problem. But I just wanted to know what the possibles reasons could be for such an error (BMC busy) Best regards, Werner PS: for the SR1625 question I got know feedback yet. I assume that the new beta works, but this customer can tell me for sure in about two weeks (than he can test the current beta) -- : Werner Fischer : Technology Specialist : Thomas-Krenn.AG | The server-experts : http://www.thomas-krenn.com | http://www.thomas-krenn.com/wiki ___ Freeipmi-users mailing list Freeipmi-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
Re: [Freeipmi-users] possible causes for ipmi_ctx_open_outofband: BMC busy
Hi Werner, The BMC Busy error code comes directly from the remote system. As you might imagine, it's typically when the BMC has too many IPMI requests to handle and can't handle all of them. That's the scenario I've personally seen them the most on. Al On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 02:15 -0700, Werner Fischer wrote: Hi Al, one of our customers monitors his Supermicro servers with FreeIPMI (with both Nagios using the plugin, and also using cacti). As both Nagios and cacti are monitoring the machines, it could be that two IPMI requests reach the BMC at the same time. For two systems (with X8DT3-LN4F and X8DTL-3F mainboards) he gets many times the following error: ipmi_ctx_open_outofband: BMC busy As it works for other systems, I assume that this could be a hardware problem. But I just wanted to know what the possibles reasons could be for such an error (BMC busy) Best regards, Werner PS: for the SR1625 question I got know feedback yet. I assume that the new beta works, but this customer can tell me for sure in about two weeks (than he can test the current beta) -- Albert Chu ch...@llnl.gov Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ___ Freeipmi-users mailing list Freeipmi-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
