Hi Russell,
I tried making some changes via ipmitool, but could not get it working.
I spoke with Dell support this morning and they referenced a web site
http://poweredgec.com/ which contains some tools and links to BIOS/BMC
updates. So I am going to have a look at these.
On 12-03-30 10:54 AM, Russell Jones wrote:
Hi Ryan,
I've replied back to the list, if you don't mind please keep questions
on the list so others can benefit :-)
You can use ipmitool to set the BMC configuration, however this is
what bmcsetup uses as well (I believe). I know on the C6100's it works
properly both on shared and dedicated BMC interface. If it is not
working properly then you have a configuration error somewhere in xcat.
On 3/30/2012 12:13 PM, Ryan Enge wrote:
Hi Russell,
We use the standard BMC's on the nodes and for our setup we want to
use a shared connection for the BMC. Do you know of a way to
configure the BMC from the nodes OS? We are running RH 5 on the nodes
and I have been trying to set this via IPMI and OMSA and no luck yet.
I want to avoid manually updating the BIOS settings on hundreds of nodes.
On 12-03-14 9:00 AM, Russell Jones wrote:
Hey Ryan,
Nope, they can handle it right out of the box. The Dell BMC's act
just like any other standard BMC that is programmable through
ipmitool. If you purchased the upgraded DRAC's for the nodes, just
make sure in the BIOS you set to use the dedicated interface instead
of shared.
Other than that everything was very straight forward, no changes
needed to be made to the code.
On 3/14/2012 10:53 AM, Ryan Enge wrote:
Hi Russell,
I thought I would reply off list for now, we have just received
some Dell C6100 series nodes and I was under the impression that
xCat could not program the BMC for these nodes. Did you have do do
any manual configuration in the BMC or make any changes to the xCat
code to get this working?
On 03/14/2012 07:43 AM, Russell Jones wrote:
Hi all,
Putting together a rack of some Dell c6100 series nodes, and am
running into some strange bmcsetup errors.
Everything appears to be configured properly on the xcat
management node, both the compute and the BMC networks all ping
without an issue. When I tell a node to do a bmcsetup, it displays
the following error on the screen:
Unable to prove root on your IP approves of this request
It then waits for a random period of time, tries again and always
succeeds the second time with no errors being shown.
The management node does not have access to the internet, and as a
result it is also dumping these bind warnings out to
/var/log/messages. These only appear when the compute node is
requesting config parameters from the MN:
Mar 13 10:46:24 linux7mgt named[6915]: too many timeouts resolving
'0/A' (in '.'?): disabling EDNS
Mar 13 10:46:24 linux7mgt named[6915]: too many timeouts resolving
'./NS' (in '.'?): disabling EDNS
Mar 13 10:46:24 linux7mgt named[6915]: too many timeouts resolving
'C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET/AAAA' (in '.'?): disabling EDNS
Mar 13 10:46:24 linux7mgt named[6915]: too many timeouts resolving
'C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET/AAAA' (in '.'?): disabling EDNS
Mar 13 10:46:24 linux7mgt named[6915]: too many timeouts resolving
'C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET/AAAA' (in '.'?): disabling EDNS
Mar 13 10:46:24 linux7mgt named[6915]: too many timeouts resolving
'L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET/AAAA' (in '.'?): disabling EDNS
Could these issues be a side effect of bind not having access to
the internet to do root DNS lookups? It seems unlikely, but given
that it seems to always succeed a second time, and after
succeeding everything works perfectly, I'm at a loss.
Thanks for any help!
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