[Freeipmi-devel] Requesting suggestions to resolve an bmc/ipmi issue

Hi FreeIPMI Team,

I have been struggling with an issue for couple of days now. I am using an open source tool called MAAS (v1.9) for provisioning OS on physical servers. This tool primarily relies uses bmc-config commands.

Target hardware is some proprietary Intel based server (not HP/Dell) which has BMC chip on it. It also has multiple LAN channels (1,2,3) where 1 & 2 being an in band NIC and channel 3 being dedicated BMC interface. Eth interfaces of Channel 1 and Channel 3 are connected in a common broadcast domain and get the IPs from a common DHCP server.

The following are the set of bmc-config commands that gets triggered by MAAS on the host (on which OS will be installed).

bmc-config, --checkout, --key-pair=Lan_Conf:IP_Address_Source

bmc-config, -L

bmc-config, --checkout, --key-pair=User2:Username

bmc-config, --checkout, --key-pair=User3:Username

bmc-config, --checkout, --key-pair=User4:Username

bmc-config, --checkout, --key-pair=User5:Username

bmc-config, --checkout, --key-pair=User6:Username

bmc-config, --checkout, --key-pair=User7:Username

bmc-config, --checkout, --key-pair=User8:Username

bmc-config, --checkout, --key-pair=User9:Username

bmc-config, --checkout, --key-pair=User10:Username

bmc-config, --checkout, --key-pair=User11:Username

bmc-config, --checkout, --key-pair=User12:Username

bmc-config, --checkout, --key-pair=User13:Username

bmc-config, --checkout, --key-pair=User14:Username

bmc-config, --checkout, --key-pair=User15:Username

bmc-config, --commit, --key-pair=User6:Username=maas

bmc-config, --commit, --key-pair=User6:Password=DYJuTLXmrljoGl

bmc-config, --commit, --key-pair=User6:Enable_User=Yes

bmc-config, --commit, --key-pair=User6:Lan_Privilege_Limit=Administrator

bmc-config, --commit, --key-pair=User6:Lan_Enable_IPMI_Msgs=Yes

bmc-config, --checkout, --key-pair=User6:Username

bmc-config, --checkout, --key-pair=User6:Lan_Privilege_Limit

bmc-config, --checkout, --key-pair=User6:Lan_Enable_IPMI_Msgs

bmc-config, --checkout, --key-pair=Lan_Conf:IP_Address

All of these commands gets executed successfully however on Lan Channel 1 interface. I want this to be set to IP address assigned to Lan Channel 3 (i.e Dedicated BMC interface). Thats my objective because MAAS tool uses Lan_Conf:IP_Address for provisioning OS & it achieves this over couple of power cycles of target host. The problem is that, since Lan_Conf:IP_Address is pointing to the IP on Lan Channel 1, that IP would not be available once the server is switched off and that blocks the provisioning workflow.

So I have tried following so far,

I tried appending '--lan-channel-number=3' on those bmc-config commands (listed above) & got 'invalid channel number' in response.

But when i execute ipmitool -H 10.6.0.21 -U tocp -P tocp lan print 3

Set in Progress : Set Complete

Auth Type Support : MD5 PASSWORD

Auth Type Enable : Callback : MD5 PASSWORD

: User : MD5 PASSWORD

: Operator : MD5 PASSWORD

: Admin : MD5 PASSWORD

: OEM :

IP Address Source : DHCP Address

IP Address : 10.6.0.21

Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0

MAC Address : a4:bf:01:03:94:bb

SNMP Community String : public

IP Header : TTL=0x00 Flags=0x00 Precedence=0x00 TOS=0x00

BMC ARP Control : ARP Responses Enabled, Gratuitous ARP Disabled

Gratituous ARP Intrvl : 0.0 seconds

Default Gateway IP : 10.6.0.1

Default Gateway MAC : 00:00:00:00:00:00

Backup Gateway IP : 0.0.0.0

Backup Gateway MAC : 00:00:00:00:00:00

802.1q VLAN ID : Disabled

802.1q VLAN Priority : 0

RMCP+ Cipher Suites : 0,1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,11,12,13,15,16,17,18

Cipher Suite Priv Max : caaaaaaaaaaaaaa

: X=Cipher Suite Unused

: c=CALLBACK

: u=USER

: o=OPERATOR

: a=ADMIN

: O=OEM

ipmitool -H 10.6.0.21 -U tocp -P tocp lan print 1