Re: [Ipmitool-devel] IPMI on Dell Poweredge SC1425 (with Debian sarge)

[Albert C. <ch...@ll...>]

Hey Adwin,

> Also, I can do a remote power off and subsequently a power on, but 
> if a do a normal shutdown -h now, the remote power on through IPMI 
> does not seem to work?!

Sometime ago when a number of us were working on the FreeIPMI project,
we found that ipmi wouldn't be able to power control some machines when
the machine was shutdown through 'shutdown -h now'.

After some digging, Anand Babu found that the ethernet driver would put
the ethernet card into a strange state that somehow affected the network
card's ability to receive packets.  I recall part of the problem was
related to Wake on Lan (WOL).  For Intel's e1000 driver, we ended up
commenting out a piece of code in the driver to ensure that the card
never ended up in any type of WOL state.  Just using ethtool to turn off
WOL didn't seem to be enough.

If you need more info, just let me know.

Al

--
Albert Chu
ch...@ll...
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

----- Original Message -----
From: "A.H. Timmer" <ad...@we...>
Date: Thursday, January 27, 2005 3:14 am
Subject: [Ipmitool-devel] IPMI on Dell Poweredge SC1425 (with Debian sarge)

> L.S.,
> 
> Has anyone got experiences with making IPMI work with the Dell 
> Poweredge 
> SC1425? I'm trying to get it to work under Debian Sarge (using 
> kernel 
> 2.6.10), and although I am having some success, I can't get all 
> functions to work. Especially BMC and power related stuff don't 
> seem to 
> work (using ipmitool version 1.6.0 with or without the Dell patch).
> 
> My boot messages related to IPMI are:
> 
> ipmi message handler version v33
> ipmi device interface version v33
> IPMI System Interface driver version v33, KCS version v33, SMIC 
> version 
> v33, BT version v33
> ipmi_si: Found SMBIOS-specified state machine at I/O address 0xca8
>  IPMI kcs interface initialized
> IPMI Watchdog: driver version v33
> Copyright (C) 2004 MontaVista Software - IPMI Powerdown via 
> sys_reboot 
> version v33.
> IPMI poweroff: Found a chassis style poweroff function
> 
> I can do a remote query:
> 
> # ipmitool -I lan -U root -a -H 10.1.0.165 chassis status
> Password:
> 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     :
> Chassis Intrusion    : inactive
> Front-Panel Lockout  : inactive
> Drive Fault          : false
> Cooling/Fan Fault    : false
> Sleep Button Disable : allowed
> Diag Button Disable  : allowed
> Reset Button Disable : allowed
> Power Button Disable : allowed
> Sleep Button Disabled: true
> Diag Button Disabled : true
> Reset Button Disabled: true
> Power Button Disabled: true
> 
> But BMC Power Restore Policy commands do not work:
> 
> # ipmitool -I lan -U root -a -H 10.1.0.165 chassis policy list
> Password:
> BMC Power Restore Policy command failed: Invalid command
> 
> Also, I can do a remote power off and subsequently a power on, but 
> if a 
> do a normal shutdown -h now, the remote power on through IPMI does 
> not 
> seem to work?!
> 
> # ipmitool -I lan -U root -a -H 10.1.0.165 chassis power on
> Password:
> Error: Unable to establish LAN session
> Unable to set Chassis Power Control to Up/On
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> --
> Adwin Timmer
> 
> 
> 
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