Re: [Ipmitool-devel] ipmitool sol set command

[Duncan L. <du...@ic...>]

O.R.Senthil Kumaran wrote:
> I am using ipmitool on a box supporting IPMI v2.0 and I am facing the
> following problem when executing any set SOL command.
>
> #ipmitool -I open sol info 0x1
> - Works properly and displays the values.
>
> #ipmitool -I open sol set set-in-progress set-complete 0x1
> - Works properly and sets the set-in-progress to set-complete
>
> BUT, when I try to set any other <parameter>; ALL FAIL with the message:
>
> Error setting SOL parameter '<parameter>': Unknown (0x81)
> Error: set of parameter "<parameter>" failed
>
>
> [root@localhost ipmiT9G]# ipmitool -vI open sol set enabled true 0x1
> Error setting SOL parameter 'set-in-progress': Unknown (0x81)
> Error: set of parameter "enabled" failed
>
> Can anyone identify, if I am doing anything wrong here?
> Any pointers as how to troubleshoot this problem?
>
>
>   

Try setting the "set-in-progress" parameter to "set-in-progress", then 
setting
the other parameters such as enabled, and then change it to "commit-write"
followed by "set-complete".  Something like this:

ipmitool sol set set-in-progress set-complete
ipmitool sol set enabled true
ipmitool sol set set-in-progress commit-write
ipmitool sol set set-in-progress set-complete

This parameter acts as a sort of user-level lock to ensure that two 
clients do
not change parameters at the same time.  By setting it to "set-in-progress"
you are allowing parameter updates, then setting to "commit-write" will
actually write the set parameters out and "set-complete" will return it to
ready for the next operation.  If you skip from set-in-progress directly to
set-complete it _should_ discard the parameter updates.

The functionality of the set-in-progress parameter is not implemented on
every BMC and some of the ones who do implement it do not do it right
so actual results may vary somewhat...

-duncan