Re: [Ipmitool-devel] How to use command line argument

[Rana <pg...@hc...>]

Dear Duncan,
    Thanks for all the information provided by you. It helped me a lot.
Sorry for delayed contact. I am using OpenIPMI-1.3.7.tar.gz. I am not able
to find the drivers (ipmi_msghandler, ipmi_devintf, ipmi_kcs_drv) mentioned
by you in the earlier mail. Can you please suggest where can I find these
drivers. Is it required to install OpenIPMI using some rpm. If so, which rpm
should we use for Red Hat Linux 9.0 and for Red Hat Advanced server 3.0.
   I tried to use the ipmitool as specified by you. It is working fine for
Intel boards but not working for Supermicro boards. According to Supermicro
people, they are using some OEM specific authentication which is not
supported by ipmitool. Is it possible to update the BMC of these Supermicro
boards, other than using the firmware provided by them. Is it also possible
to get the IPMI specific information remotely using ipmitool if we install
the OpenIPMI package on the host machine.

Thanks and Regards,
Rana.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Duncan Laurie" <du...@ic...>
To: "Rana" <pg...@hc...>
Cc: <ipm...@li...>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Ipmitool-devel] How to use command line argument


> On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 17:30, Rana wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >    I am very new to IPMI and want to explore IPMI. So, I have chosen
> > OpenIPMI package. I have downloaded the IPMI package. I have extracted
> > the package, and the used configure, make and make install to install
> > the package. I have also configured the BMC present on the Intel
> > server using the SSU utility that comes with motherboard CD. Can now
> > anyone help me in writing an example command.
> >    1. How to connect to an Intel server having an BMC.
>
> This is a loaded question. :)  If you want to connect _locally_ using
> OpenIPMI then you just need to make sure the modules are loaded and the
> /dev/ipmi0 device is created based on the dynamic major number that was
> assigned to the device.  You can do this with a startup script like:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "Setting up OpenIPMI driver..."
> # load the ipmi modules
> modprobe ipmi_msghandler
> modprobe ipmi_devintf
> modprobe ipmi_kcs_drv
>
> maj=$(cat /proc/devices | awk '/ipmidev/{print $1}')
> if [ "$maj" ]; then
>     /bin/mknod /dev/ipmi0 c $maj 0
> fi
>
> The OpenIPMI module name for "ipmi_kcs_drv" has changed to "ipmi_si" in
> recent 2.6 kernels so this would need some modification there.  There
> also seems to be a problem preventing the new module from loading
> correctly.  This is probably only going to affect you if the box is
> running Fedora Core 2 or SuSE 9.1.
>
> To use the OpenIPMI interface run IPMItool with "-I open" argument.
>
> If you are trying to connect over the LAN and have the configured the
> BMC already using the Intel SSU then you should be able to run IPMItool
> with "-I lan -H <hostname> -P <password>".  If you have not yet
> configured the lan then you will need to do it with the OpenIPMI
> interface.  This can either be done by hand (painstaking) or you can use
> a script for automating it:
>
> http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net/bmclanconf
>
> This is an updated version of the bmcautoconf.sh script that is
> currently in the ipmitool source under the contrib dir.
>
> >    2. How to run an IPMI command using the Command Line Interface with
> > an example.
>
> Here are some sample commands run against one of my servers.  The output
> has been truncated in some cases to keep it short.  All of these can
> also be run through OpenIPMI kernel drivers on the local box by
> replacing "-I lan -H grizzly -P demo" with "-I open".
>
> duncan@raq:~$ ipmitool -I lan -H grizzly -P demo chassis status
> System Power         : on
> Power Overload       : false
> Power Interlock      : inactive
> Main Power Fault     : false
> Power Control Fault  : false
> Power Restore Policy : always-off
> Last Power Event     : command
> Chassis Intrusion    : inactive
> Front-Panel Lockout  : inactive
> Drive Fault          : false
> Cooling/Fan Fault    : false
>
> duncan@raq:~$ ipmitool -I lan -H grizzly -P demo sdr list
> Baseboard 1.2V   | 1.20 Volts        | ok
> Baseboard 1.25V  | 1.27 Volts        | ok
> Baseboard 1.8V   | 1.79 Volts        | ok
> Baseboard 5.0V   | 5.02 Volts        | ok
> Baseboard 5VSB   | 5.10 Volts        | ok
> Baseboard 12V    | 11.97 Volts       | ok
> Baseboard 12VRM  | 12.03 Volts       | ok
> Baseboard -12V   | -12.11 Volts      | ok
> Baseboard VBAT   | 3.13 Volts        | ok
> Baseboard Temp   | 41 degrees C      | ok
> FntPnl Amb Temp  | 31 degrees C      | ok
> Baseboard Fan 1  | 7752 RPM          | ok
> Baseboard Fan 2  | 8925 RPM          | ok
> Baseboard Fan 3  | 8415 RPM          | ok
> Processor 1 Stat | Present           | ok
> Processor 2 Stat | Present           | ok
> Processor1 Temp  | 41 degrees C      | ok
> Processor2 Temp  | 40 degrees C      | ok
> Processor Vccp   | 1.47 Volts        | ok
> DIMM 1B          | Installed         | ok
> DIMM 1A          | Installed         | ok
> DIMM 2B          | Not Installed     | ok
> DIMM 2A          | Not Installed     | ok
> DIMM 3B          | Not Installed     | ok
> DIMM 3A          | Not Installed     | ok
>
>
> For some more example commands I would recommend this very short
> document that goes over some of the features of IPMItool:
>
> http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net/lca2004_ipmitool.pdf
>
> -duncan
>