RE: [Freeipmi-devel] Can anyone confirm if Fujitsus iRMC S2 works fine?>

[Liebig, Holger]

> 
> Hi,
> 
> we might have to buy a Server with Fujitjus iRMC S2 card. 

[Liebig, Holger] 
It's not a card. The BMC is part of the mainboard. Since it provides more 
functionality than a standard IPMI BMC it is called iRMC (integrated Remote 
Management Controller).

> From the datasheets
> I found it's not clear if everything works just with freeipmi or openipmi.
> There is sentence "From the Web frontend one can start a telnet session...
> Additionally to telnet, SOL and ssh are also supported".
> 
> This could mean that I would also need the web interface to start the SOL
> session. Of course I don't want that...

[Liebig, Holger] 
For convenience we provide a Java applet which can be started from the Web 
interface for all the people out there without a standard SSH or SOL client at 
hand. Nobody is forced to use it.

> 
> Can anyone working with this card confirm if
> a) SOL can be used by freeipmi or openipmi without any web gui or sth.
> else,
>    just by calling ipmiconsole or "ipmitool sol activate"?
> 
> b) bmc-watchdog works?

[Liebig, Holger] 
I would recommend to ask for an evaluation of the system in question. 
Please keep in mind that you need to start a getty on the serial line if you 
want to use it for console access. You can also activate the serial text 
redirection from the SSH or Telnet connection as long as it is not in use by 
anybody else.

Support for Fujitsu specific sensors and eventlog decoding has been added to 
FreeIPMI recently (0.8.11).

Holger