Shared or dedicated ethernet network? If shared, does it happen in
steady-state (e.g. just sitting in the OS) or only when booting or other
activity that may induce link up/down events on the shared nic?
FWIW, I've never actually seen the 'Error2' type output except when I put
it in to debug while getting it correct in development. I've not heard of
this behaviour from customers, our support team, or development. These
things can work reliably and reasonably quickly in both dedicated and
shared mode, though in shared mode switch spanning tree being suboptimally
configured particularly hurts on link state change...
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:10 PM, 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
> System Administrator
> Center for Research Computing
> University of Rochester
> https://www.crc.rochester.edu/
>
>
>
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