On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 19:38 -0700, Christopher Maestas wrote:
> Al,
>
>
> I'm sorry I should have tagged that first case of using ipmipower as
> an error. Once I added "-D LAN_2_0 " things worked great. I think I
> also figured out the freeipmi.conf parameter (driver-type LAN_2_0) to
> change to make it work by default and still talk to lo100 and iLO
> devices without any issue at first glance
>
>
> Things are running fine now. I will continue to do some more testing
> tomorrow with SOL, sensor gatherings. In addition I will try and
> report back on conman/powerman using their ipmi drivers work against
> the iLO server as well.
>
>
> Finally I will try and take a look at some tests specified here:
>
>
> http://*www.*
gnu.org/software/freeipmi/freeipmi-testing.txt
>
>
> and report back.
>
> -cdm
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Albert Chu <
address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> > For freeipmi (ipmipower) I found the following combination
> worked:
> > ---
> > # ipmipower -h cut0iogw1-ilo -s
> > cut0iogw1-ilo: authentication type unavailable for attempted
> privilege level
>
>
> This isn't good. It suggests that the HP firmware might be
> returning
> bad/poor information in the Get Authentication Capabilities
> phase of
> IPMI. Does ipmipower work if you also specify the authcap
> workaround?
> (-W authcap).
>
> If it does work, then there is a bug. Perhaps you can send me
> a --debug
> output and we can take a look to figure out what the bug is.
>
> Al
>
>
> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 15:29 -0700, Christopher Maestas wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > With the recent update of the 2.00 iLO2 firmware, we can now
> support:
> >
> >
> > - "IPMI over LAN" functionality. The IPMI 2.0 RMCP+ (or
> Linux ipmitool
> > "lanplus") protocol is supported with this release.
> > - IPMI Serial Over LAN (SOL)
> > - Data Center Manageability Interface (DCMI) v1.0
> specification
> > - Enhanced the "in band" Intelligent Platform Management
> Interface (IPMI)
> > to comply with the IPMI specification version 2.0
> >
> > I've been able to use ipmitool to test this successfully
> (power, SOL and
> > sensor gathering). Here's what I do with ipmitool:
> > ---
> > # rpm -q ipmitool
> > ipmitool-1.8.11-1
> > # ipmitool -I lanplus -H cut0iogw1-ilo -U USER -P PASS power
> status
> > Chassis Power is off
> > # ipmitool -I lanplus -H cut0iogw1-ilo -U USER -P PASS power
> on
> > Chassis Power Control: Up/On
> > # ipmitool -I lanplus -H cut0iogw1-ilo -U USER -P PASS power
> status
> > Chassis Power is on
> > ---
> >
> > For freeipmi (ipmipower) I found the following combination
> worked:
> > ---
> > # ipmipower -h cut0iogw1-ilo -s
> > cut0iogw1-ilo: authentication type unavailable for attempted
> privilege level
> > # ipmipower -h cut0iogw1-ilo -D LAN_2_0 -s
> > cut0iogw1-ilo: on
> > # ipmipower -h cut0iogw1-ilo -D LAN_2_0 -f
> > cut0iogw1-ilo: ok
> > # ipmipower -h cut0iogw1-ilo -D LAN_2_0 -s
> > cut0iogw1-ilo: off
> > # ipmipower -h cut0iogw1-ilo -D LAN_2_0 -n
> > cut0iogw1-ilo: ok
> > # ipmipower -h cut0iogw1-ilo -D LAN_2_0 -s
> > cut0iogw1-ilo: on
> > ---
> >
> > I set the following in /etc/freeipmi.conf:
> > ---
> > driver-type LAN_2_0
> > ---
> >
> > and it seems to work ok for the lo100 and ilo2 servers just
> fine.
> > ---
> > # ipmipower -h cut0iogw1-ilo -s
> > cut0iogw1-ilo: on
> > # ipmipower -h cut0admin1-lo -s
> > cut0admin1-lo: on
> > ---
> >
> > I figure there may be other functional tests for ipmi
> compliance I can run
> > now that the initial flags have been worked around for
> freeipmi's ipmipower
> > command. Then I figure on changing powerman/conman to use
> ipmi drivers for
> > ilo devices and see how that works.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -cdm
>
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> --
> Albert Chu
>
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> Computer Scientist
> High Performance Systems Division
> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
>
>
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