Re: [Ipmitool-devel] 'ipmitool sol info' yields 'Invalid command'

[John M. <jw...@ho...>]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 09:04:58AM -0700, Roger Mach wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:20 -0400, John Morrissey wrote:
> > I'm trying to get SOL working on a large pile of IBM BladeCenter HS21
> > blades. IPMI seems to be working fine (I can pull chassis information,
> > etc. with no problems), but 'sol info' complains about 'Invalid command'
> > when I run it:
> 
> While the blades do communicate with the management module in a blade
> chassis using IPMI, they don't support doing SOL the way other platforms
> do.  Instead, to access the serial console you need to telnet to the
> management module (MM or AMM), log in and then issue this command:
> 
> 	console -T system:blade[X]
> 
> Where X is the slot number of the blade.  See
> https://www-304.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisplay?brandind=5000008&lndocid=MIGR-59728
> for more information and troubleshooting suggestions.

Exactly what I was looking for; thanks, Roger. I'd attached to the console
via the MM before, but didn't realize that SOL access via ipmitool(1) wasn't
supported.

Are any automated (i.e., from a Linux userland) ways of configuring the
blades' BIOS SOL settings? We're adding batches of blades on a fairly
regular basis, and it would be nice to have the setup be completely
automated.

john
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