Re: [Freeipmi-devel] sun20 workaround doesn't

2009-06-18 Thread Dave Love
"Johnson, Bill" writes: > I would be interested in any thoughts or comments back. Like you're rudely abusing a GNU mailing list by advertising proprietary software? I have conman (and others). ___ Freeipmi-devel mailing list Freeipmi-devel@gnu

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] sun20 workaround doesn't

2009-06-12 Thread Al Chu
Hey Dave, Great, I'll add that into the docs. Al On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 10:32 +0100, Dave Love wrote: > Al Chu writes: > > > Hey Dave, > > > >> Ah. solpayloadsize,sun20 did establish a connexion, but I think the > >> speed may be wrong as it appears dead once connected. On the other > >> hand

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] sun20 workaround doesn't

2009-06-12 Thread Dave Love
Al Chu writes: > Hey Dave, > >> Ah. solpayloadsize,sun20 did establish a connexion, but I think the >> speed may be wrong as it appears dead once connected. On the other >> hand, after disconnecting, that seems to have taken the ILOM off the >> air... That is with the earliest ILOM, anyway, th

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] sun20 workaround doesn't

2009-06-11 Thread Al Chu
Hey Dave, > Ah. solpayloadsize,sun20 did establish a connexion, but I think the > speed may be wrong as it appears dead once connected. On the other > hand, after disconnecting, that seems to have taken the ILOM off the > air... That is with the earliest ILOM, anyway, though it's annoying it >

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] sun20 workaround doesn't

2009-06-11 Thread Dave Love
Al Chu writes: > A. I take it you are using the hostrange feature as a "go get data > faster" mechanism. I suppose I was thinking more about the > buffer/consolidate options (-B, -C). Using them against a heterogenous > environment didn't make too much sense to me. Right. I have a script

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] sun20 workaround doesn't

2009-06-11 Thread Dave Love
Al Chu writes: > Actually, it seems the sun20 workarounds are working correctly. You are > able to authenticate. The problem is ... Yes. I was only meaning to say that the SOL seems to be broken. >> # ipmiconsole -h ipmi101 -Wsun20 >> [error received]: SOL unavailable > > This typically mea

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] sun20 workaround doesn't

2009-06-10 Thread Al Chu
Hey Dave, On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 15:31 +0100, Dave Love wrote: > Al Chu writes: > > > Hehe. It's funny you mention this. I had a request/comment on this > > topic just last week. First, please take a look at my original post on > > this for what I was thinking of supporting: > > > > http://www

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] sun20 workaround doesn't

2009-06-10 Thread Al Chu
Hey Dave, On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 15:19 +0100, Dave Love wrote: > Al Chu writes: > > > Hey Dave, > > > > Whew, I'm glad I have a relatively new sun board, this would have been > > tough to figure out :-) > > Good. I could have offered to let you on here. > > > Effectively, the "opensesspriv" wo

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] sun20 workaround doesn't

2009-06-10 Thread Dave Love
Al Chu writes: > Hehe. It's funny you mention this. I had a request/comment on this > topic just last week. First, please take a look at my original post on > this for what I was thinking of supporting: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/freeipmi-devel@gnu.org/msg00710.html For what it's worth,

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] sun20 workaround doesn't

2009-06-10 Thread Dave Love
Al Chu writes: > Hey Dave, > > Whew, I'm glad I have a relatively new sun board, this would have been > tough to figure out :-) Good. I could have offered to let you on here. > Effectively, the "opensesspriv" workaround is also needed for the Sun > boards. I've wrapped that workaround in as a

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] sun20 workaround doesn't

2009-06-09 Thread Al Chu
Hey Dave, Whew, I'm glad I have a relatively new sun board, this would have been tough to figure out :-) Effectively, the "opensesspriv" workaround is also needed for the Sun boards. I've wrapped that workaround in as an automatic one for the Sun workaround, so it should work now. Test tar.gz i

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] sun20 workaround doesn't

2009-06-09 Thread Al Chu
Hey Dave, > OK, appended. Hmmm. It seems the workaround just isn't working. It's possible I have introduced a bug into the workaround. Let me see if I can figure it out. > I didn't mean to be critical, of course. However, I find it's a real > practical problem with our heterogeneous HPC syst

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] sun20 workaround doesn't

2009-06-09 Thread Dave Love
Al Chu writes: > Hey Dave, > > It's entirely possible there is another issue for your systems I never > encountered before or a bug in the workaround code. If you could send > the --debug output, that'd be great. OK, appended. > Ipmitool also elects to "hide" > workarounds in its tools more of

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] sun20 workaround doesn't

2009-06-08 Thread Al Chu
Hey Dave, It's entirely possible there is another issue for your systems I never encountered before or a bug in the workaround code. If you could send the --debug output, that'd be great. As for your second question, there are a number of "checks" that I do more stringently than in ipmitool, lea

[Freeipmi-devel] sun20 workaround doesn't

2009-06-08 Thread Dave Love
I tried `bmc-info -D LAN_2_0 -W sun20' on x4100s with both ILOM 1.0 and 2.0.2.5 (the latest as of a few months ago). It gives `password invalid' in both cases. (With LAN, -W endianseq works with both the 1.0 and 2.0 ILOMs, but it doesn't help with LAN_2_0.) Is --debug output the right thing to s