#294 ipmitool reporting wrong firmware revision?

[Locane]

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this.

ipmitool seems to be reporting the wrong ipmi firmware revision on Supermicro's H8QG6-F motherboard.

The BIOS reports the IPMI FW as being 2.06, and Supermicro's website says that 2.06 is current, however ipmitool shows it as 2.6.

Am I missing something, or is this a bug in ipmitool?

[Zdenek Styblik]

Hello,

it would be great to provide ipmitool version, command + parameters and output.

Thanks.

[Locane]

I "yum updated" ipmitool, and it shows as 1.8.11 with ipmitool -V.

The command I'm typing is "ipmitool mc info", and the line I'm interested
in is "Firmware Revision".

Thanks for the quick reply!
On Feb 13, 2014 10:50 AM, "Zdenek Styblik" stybla@users.sf.net wrote:

Hello,

it would be great to provide ipmitool version, command + parameters and
output.

Thanks.

• [bugs:#294] http://sourceforge.net/p/ipmitool/bugs/294/ ipmitool
  reporting wrong firmware revision?*

Status: open
Labels: incorrect info reporting wrong firmware revision mc info
Created: Thu Feb 13, 2014 06:46 PM UTC by Locane
Last Updated: Thu Feb 13, 2014 06:46 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this.

ipmitool seems to be reporting the wrong ipmi firmware revision on
Supermicro's H8QG6-Fhttp://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron6000/SR56x0/H8QG6-F.cfmmotherboard.

The BIOS reports the IPMI FW as being 2.06, and Supermicro's website says
that 2.06 is current, however ipmitool shows it as 2.6.

Am I missing something, or is this a bug in ipmitool?

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[Zdenek Styblik]

Please, try the latest version of ipmitool which is 1.8.13.

[Locane]

I apologize for my ignorance in advance, but I'm not sure how to do that. I couldn't find instructions here.

The yum repository seems to think 1.8.11 is current.

Downloading the archive here from sourceforge and extracting it gets me in to a directory with a lot of files, most notably the source. I got as far as using the "configure" executable to configure an installation, and then "make", but "make install" doesn't produce anything usable - no "ipmitool" executable in the local directory or in /usr/bin. Is it supposed to?

I'm using CentOS 6.4

[Locane]

Nevermind - I found the new executable in the "src" directory.

The new version fixed the issue - the firmware revision is now reporting correctly!

[Zdenek Styblik]

It's most likely in /usr/local/bin/, resp. /usr/local/bin/ipmitool

btw you can(and should) do: % make install DESTDIR=/path/where/i/want/it ;, eg. % make install DESTDIR=/tmp/package-ipmitool/ ; ;-)

[Zdenek Styblik]

Ok, I'm glad to hear this is no longer issue :)

Closing as out-of-date.