Have you tried connecting a cable directly to the iDataPlex servers and
seeing if you get the same problems? (e.g: eliminating any chance of
network problems)
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Steve Crusan <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We just got in some shiny new idataplex machines. For whatever
> reason, there seems to be a lot of inconsistency from xcat in communicating
> with the BMCs.
>
> Here is some general information first:
>
> xCAT version:
> xCAT-2.6-snap201104261125
>
> OS/kernel:
> RHEL5.7 - 2.6.18-274.12.1.el5
>
> The newest idataplex hardware details:
>
> iDataPlex dx360 M3 Server
> BMC Firmware: 1.30 (YUOOC7E 2011/09/30 03:12:03)
> Product ID: 215
> UEFI Version: 1.16 (TME154A 2011/09/22)
>
>
> The issues I'm seeing are hard to replicate, because there is no
> consistency. rinv works sometimes, doesn't work other times. Sometimes
> there are timeouts, sometimes there aren't. power control doesn't work at
> all.
>
> Sometimes I get messages similar to this:
>
> Error2 retrieving UEFI build version
>
> ???
>
> I can also remotely query the BMCs using ipmitool, but even that is
> noticeably slower than some of our other nodes. I've verified that our
> older idataplex hardware work fine.
>
> Anyone seeing similar issues to this?
>
>
>
> ----------------------
> Steve Crusan
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> Center for Research Computing
> University of Rochester
> https://www.crc.rochester.edu/
>
>
>
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