Well, there are two things. We could drop -o intelplus. The Intel BMCs that acted different I think are long past the useful phase of their life. Anyone still stuck with one of those isn't likely to be updating xCAT. FYI this should be a simple edit to /opt/xcat/share/xcat/cons/ipmi
Another is installing confluent. It stops using ipmitool and uses the ipmi stack I've been working on that should be immune to this issue (as well as doing some other stuff). xCAT 2.9 or 2.8.5.1 should have makeconfluentcfg, and confluent itself can be gotten from https://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/files/confluent_dep/ and https://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/files/confluent/ How to switch to confluent from existing conserver configuration: service conserver stop (and make sure that conserver doesn't automatically start using e.g. chkconfig) service confluent start (if desired, set it to start at boot) makeconfluentcfg <noderange> (note that confluent must already be running before issuing this command today) Jarrod Johnson Systems Management Architect Lenovo -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Samuel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 11:01 PM To: xCAT Users Mailing list ([email protected]) Subject: [xcat-user] IPMI console problem with -o intelplus Hi folks, Amongst our nodes is an SGI UV10 which will not work with xCAT's IPMI serial-over-lan setup as it tries to use the "-o intelplus" option which won't work, thus: strace -fe execve /opt/xcat/share/xcat/cons/ipmi terri [...] execve("/opt/xcat/bin/ipmitool-xcat", ["/opt/xcat/bin/ipmitool-xcat", "-I", "lanplus", "-o", "intelplus", "-U", "USERID", "-P", "PASSW0RD", "-H", "terri-imm", "sol", "activate"], [/* 57 vars */]) = 0 Error: Unable to establish IPMI v2 / RMCP+ session Error: No response activating SOL payload Replicating from the command line: [root@merri-m etc]# /opt/xcat/bin/ipmitool-xcat -I lanplus -o intelplus -U $USER -P $PASS -H terri-imm sol activate Error: Unable to establish IPMI v2 / RMCP+ session Error: No response activating SOL payload However, if we drop the "-o intelplus" it's fine: [root@merri-m etc]# /opt/xcat/bin/ipmitool-xcat -I lanplus -U $USER -P $PASS -H terri-imm sol activate [SOL Session operational. Use ~? for help] Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago) Kernel 2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64 on an x86_64 terri login: [...] There was an xCAT bug on this: http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/bugs/759/ but it's long been closed without any attempt to fix the problem, even though I had hoped my comments there would get it reopened back in 2013. Any chance of it being reopened and addressed please? Thanks! Chris -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
