[Ipmitool-devel] Error in setting power policy in 1.5.9

[John G. <jgo...@ya...>]

Hey,

There seems to be a problem with setting power policy to 'always-off'. Both
'previous' and 'always-on' seem to work, as does setting 'always-off' with
'raw' commands.

[root@rack-westville jgoebel]# ipmitool -V
ipmitool version 1.5.9
[root@rack-westville jgoebel]# ipmitool -I open chassis policy always-on
Set chassis power restore policy to always-on 
[root@rack-westville jgoebel]# ipmitool -I open chassis status| grep Policy
Power Restore Policy : always-on
[root@rack-westville jgoebel]# ipmitool -I open chassis policy always-off
[root@rack-westville jgoebel]# ipmitool -I open chassis status | grep Policy
Power Restore Policy : always-on
[root@rack-westville jgoebel]# ipmitool -v -I open raw 0x0 0x6 0x00
 00
RAW REQ (netfn=0x0 cmd=0x6 data_len=1)
RAW RSP (1 bytes)
 07
[root@rack-westville jgoebel]# ipmitool -I open chassis status | grep Policy
Power Restore Policy : always-off

I wanted to track down the problem and send a patch, but I just got smacked
with a load of work. I thought you'd want to know about this before releasing
the next version.

Note that the 'Set chassis power restore policy to ...' never appears for
'always-off'. I believe the 'policy' never arrives to the function
ipmi_chassis_power_policy in ipmi_chassis.c. In 1.6.0pre3 there doesn't appear
to be code to address this problem.


Thanks,
John

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