Re: [Freeipmi-devel] FreeIPMI Issues

2007-04-23 Thread Bala.A
Hi Levi, > > We'd definitely be interested in splitting the workload with you if Bala > is open to it. > Fantastic. It will be great help for us. The current status of ipmi-pef tool is, it just dumps Event Filter Table and Alert Policy Table in commented texts in stdout or filename like bmc-co

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] FreeIPMI Issues

2007-04-23 Thread Bala.A
Hi Levi, Firstly, I would say thanks for your appreciation. > > We'd also like some more extensive PEF configuration options in > bmc-config, but I haven't looked into that with any detail yet. > In the current FreeIPMI development CVS branch has separate tool called ipmi-pef. The tool is unde

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] FreeIPMI Issues

2007-04-23 Thread Al Chu
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 21:30 +0200, Ingo van Lil wrote: > All characters up to the first '\0' should be printable (function > isprint()), all subsequent characters must be '\0'. Otherwise you should > fall back to hex syntax to be on the safe side. Maybe non-ascii > characters (>127) should be forbi

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] FreeIPMI Issues

2007-04-23 Thread Ingo van Lil
Al Chu wrote: > Here's an idea. How about if the user prefixes his input with a '0x', > then we assume the user wants to do up to 20 bytes of hex. If not > prefixed by '0x', then we assume the user is inputting a string? You could use the syntax that's used for specifying WEP keys in iwconfig:

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] FreeIPMI Issues

2007-04-23 Thread Al Chu
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 13:04 -0600, Levi Pearson wrote: > Patching bmc-config to support either does seem tricky. The Dell > utilities to read/set the key deal only in hex. Allowing both opens the > possibility for two different keys to be specified simultaneously. I agree it would be a non-perfe

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] FreeIPMI Issues

2007-04-23 Thread Levi Pearson
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 11:54 -0700, Al Chu wrote: > Cool. Perhaps we could add the K_g fixes you need (are working on??), > then we could roll out 0.3.3. > I'll be working on a patch for the K_g key today; I'll post it sometime in the next few days for your review. --Levi

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] FreeIPMI Issues

2007-04-23 Thread Levi Pearson
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 15:51 -0700, Al Chu wrote: > > I'd like the ability to enter the key in hexadecimal > > and have it treated as a 20-byte binary field instead of a string, which > > matches how the key is handled in the Dell utilities. > > I faced a similar issue/dilemma early on. Honestly,

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] FreeIPMI Issues

2007-04-23 Thread Al Chu
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 12:37 -0600, Levi Pearson wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 22:18 -0700, Albert Chu wrote: > > Hi Levi, > > > > I think it's done. PLMK if it works for you on the dell's. > > > > our CVS head (our 0.4.0 eventual release) > > > > cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sources/f

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] FreeIPMI Issues

2007-04-23 Thread Levi Pearson
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 22:18 -0700, Albert Chu wrote: > Hi Levi, > > I think it's done. PLMK if it works for you on the dell's. > > our CVS head (our 0.4.0 eventual release) > > cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sources/freeipmi co > freeipmi > > our 0.3.X maintenance line > > cvs -z3 -d:p

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] FreeIPMI Issues

2007-04-19 Thread Albert Chu
Hi Levi, I think it's done. PLMK if it works for you on the dell's. our CVS head (our 0.4.0 eventual release) cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sources/freeipmi co freeipmi our 0.3.X maintenance line cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sources/freeipmi co -r Release-0_3_0_branch freeipm

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] FreeIPMI Issues

2007-04-19 Thread Al Chu
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 13:21 -0600, Levi Pearson wrote: > With the exception of ipmipower and ipmiconsole, the FreeIPMI utilities > have issues dealing with having Per-Message Authentication and > User-Level Authentication disabled. Hi Levi, One other thought. If the user-level authentication di

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] FreeIPMI Issues

2007-04-19 Thread Al Chu
Levi, As I'm looking at the code now, I think I can hammer out permsgauth support in the tools pretty quick. Gimme a day or so. Al On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 15:51 -0700, Al Chu wrote: > Hi Levi, > > On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 13:21 -0600, Levi Pearson wrote: > > I'd like to work with the core developer

Re: [Freeipmi-devel] FreeIPMI Issues

2007-04-19 Thread Al Chu
Hi Levi, On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 13:21 -0600, Levi Pearson wrote: > I'd like to work with the core developers so that any fixes and new > features we make are acceptable to you, so we don't have to maintain a > separate branch. Sounds good. Glad to have additional support from others. > With ipm