[Freeipmi-devel] Bmc-config checkout errors

[Albert Chu]

> Tyan does not support Serial Channel in BMC.  You can safely ignore 
> thisas warnings and they are not related with ipmipower,ipmiping or 
> rmcpping.

Perhaps we can modify fish to output a different message, or no message
at all when a checkout error occurs?  My recollection is the error code
CCh is returned whenever a BMC config field is not checkout-able.

Al

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bala.A" <address@hidden>
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:40 am
Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-users] Tyan Thunder S2882 with m3289 bmc module

> Hi
> 
> > Sorry for the confusion on my end... This is an S2882 and there were
> > actually four ethernet cards in the system.  Three onboard and one
> > PCI (another Intel - eth3).  I was trying to give the BMC the 
> addresses> of the PCI card (eth3).  Once I figured things out I 
> gave it the
> > addresses of the onboard Intel card (eth2) and started using eth2 as
> > the primary network interface, ipmiping and rmcpping started to 
> work.> I can't get 'ipmipower --stat' to work though.  I get the 
> simple message:
> >
> >     # ipmipower --stat --hostname tomato
> >     tomato: timed out
> >
> 
> 1. Your on-board Intel Pro100 card should be up and running with 
> same IP
> address of BMC in GNU/Linux. This is known problem in SMDC firmware.
> 
> 2. Install GNU FreeIPMI in another machine (This machine should be 
> in same
> network of IPMI machine by on-board Intel Pro100 card).
> 
> 3. Test ICMP ping to IPMI machine.  This should be working.
> 
> 4. If ICMP ping is successful, test whether ipmipower, ipmiping and
> rcmpping are working or not.
> 
> Please try these steps and let me know.
> 
> 
> 
> > The S2882 BIOS and the SMDC firware are the latest up to date 
> versions.> The only sign of something amiss is the following bmc-
> config output:
> >
> > ...
> > Section Serial_Channel
> > Error in checkout of key <Volatile_Access_Mode>
> > Error in checkout of key <Volatile_Enable_User_Level_Auth>
> > Error in checkout of key <Volatile_Enable_Per_Message_Auth>
> > Error in checkout of key <Volatile_Enable_Pef_Alerting>
> > Error in checkout of key <Volatile_Channel_Privilege_Limit>
> > Error in checkout of key <Non_Volatile_Access_Mode>
> > Error in checkout of key <Non_Volatile_Enable_User_Level_Auth>
> > Error in checkout of key <Non_Volatile_Enable_Per_Message_Auth>
> > Error in checkout of key <Non_Volatile_Enable_Pef_Alerting>
> > Error in checkout of key <Non_Volatile_Channel_Privilege_Limit>
> > EndSection
> > Section Serial_Conf
> > Error in checkout of key <Enable_Basic_Mode>
> > Error in checkout of key <Enable_PPP_Mode>
> > Error in checkout of key <Enable_Terminal_Mode>
> > Error in checkout of key <Connect_Mode>
> > Error in checkout of key <Page_Blackout_Interval>
> > Error in checkout of key <Call_Retry_Time>
> > Error in checkout of key <Enable_DTR_Hangup>
> > Error in checkout of key <Flow_Control>
> > Error in checkout of key <Bit_Rate>
> > EndSection
> > ...
> 
> Tyan does not support Serial Channel in BMC.  You can safely ignore 
> thisas warnings and they are not related with ipmipower,ipmiping or 
> rmcpping.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Best Regards
> Bala
> 
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