[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
[Freeipmi-users] FreeIPMI 1.0.4 Released
http://download.gluster.com/pub/freeipmi/1.0.4/ FreeIPMI 1.0.4 - 04/21/11 - o Support discretereading workaround in ipmi-sensors and associated libraries. o Support spinpoll workaround/performance optimization in tools and libraries. o Support additional sensor/SEL interpretations for Intel motherboards. o Add convenience input checking functions to libipmiconsole. o Fix bug in libipmimonitoring to allow additional OEM interpretations. Al -- 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
