So the mini-RSA card added remote video, ssh and web (and some things for IBM director at the time). The original x3550 should have provided IPMI and SOL out of the box (although the vintage is such that I think you need IPMI 1.5, which I haven't tested in a long time). Very vague in my memory, but I was arrund for those days.
Fun fact, that architecture is why to this day we have an oddity in our firmware, that IPMI connects to ttyS0 and SSH connects to ttyS1, it was for backwards compatiblity to this time when the mini-RSA brought it's own serial uart and thus IPMI only worked to the builtin uart and ssh only worked to the mini-RSA's uart. ________________________________ From: Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 6:41 PM To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Vinícius Ferrão <fer...@versatushpc.com.br> Subject: [External] [xcat-user] Support for IBM Remote Supervisor Supervisor II (RSA-II) Hello, This thread may be offtopic on this list but I don’t have any other places to go with people may understand the question. I’ve bought this card thinking that it would provide IPMI for being controlled by Confluent (and xCAT maybe...) but I think I misunderstood what the device provides. Anyone knows if this card is supported? Does it provide IPMI over LAN? Long story: There’s an old IBM System x3550 (the first one) that I use to test things, and I was trying to add it as a compute node of Confluent but although it has an OOB Ethernet Interface named as management it didn’t even linked when a network cable was plugged. So after spending countless hours trying to figure it out I’ve discovered that I should have an additional IBM RSA-2 Slimline Card on the system for this management port work. I think I incorrectly assumed that this card would provide a classic IPMI over LAN interface since the server already has BMC configuration on the BIOS that I can even set the LAN settings like the IP address. So I sourced one card in the used market and after 12h fighting with the card due to wrong firmwares, mismatches between the system BIOS and the car and broken download links on IBM website and that frustrating Fix Central webpage. There still an BMC update that I could not do because the update package simply does not find the BMC on the server. Probably because the package is for EL5 and I’m running EL7. After fighting with this I was able to finally connect to the web interface that the RSA-2 provided. I can shutdown and power on the server, see some information and that’s it. However I cannot control the system using ipmitool remotely and when using ipmitool in band the LAN settings are different from those on the RSA-II card. So I think all this configuration on the BIOS about the BMC, the ipmitool lan commands are all bogus on this system. Basically the card is pretty much useless and I just wasted time and little money in this journey. So is there any chance of making this work? Any workaround? Anyone that feels the pain or knows the hardware enough to fill in the gaps what I may be missing? Thanks all. _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.sourceforge.net%2Flists%2Flistinfo%2Fxcat-user&data=05%7C02%7Cjjohnson2%40lenovo.com%7C1cc27dfaf4964501405d08dc119d520d%7C5c7d0b28bdf8410caa934df372b16203%7C0%7C0%7C638404614610576954%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=gSZk487MMWMoEFcsebSMJMimxFCFdiq3UEnBflYS4wQ%3D&reserved=0<https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user>
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