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

Hi All,

Never mind, I found how install 1.4.9. version on Ubuntu 14.04. I also was able to issue bmc-config commands with '--lan-channel-number=3' without any issues.

Thanks for the support Albert Chu.

FYI steps to install 1.4.9 on Ubuntu 14.04

wget -O- http://neuro.debian.net/lists/trusty.us-ca.libre | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/neurodebian.sources.list

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 0xA5D32F012649A5A9

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install freeipmi-tools

sudo apt-cache madison ^freeipmi-tools

freeipmi-tools | 1.4.9-1~nd14.04+1 | http://neurodeb.pirsquared.org/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

freeipmi-tools | 1.1.5-3ubuntu3.3 | http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages

freeipmi-tools | 1.1.5-3ubuntu3 | http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

Regards,

Ravi

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Ravi DevPro <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi FreeIPMI team,

At the moment, apt-get install freeipmi-tools (on Ubunut 14.04) installs v1.1.5 by default. Is there any way of us getting freeipmi-tools v1.4.9 (or beyond) installed on Ubuntu 14.04? Albert Chu, suggested that 'invalid channel number' issue was fixed in v1.4.9.

I tried downloading freeipmit-tool source code and build bmc-config binary. However I wasn't able to run the command,

~/freeipmi-1.5.7$ cd ./ipmi-config/
~/freeipmi-1.5.7/ipmi-config$ bmc-config --version
/usr/local/sbin/ipmi-config: error while loading shared libraries: libfreeipmi.so.17: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any pointers/ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for considering and taking time for my queries and requests.
Ravi

On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Ravi DevPro <address@hidden> wrote:
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
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 : 10.6.0.14
Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0
MAC Address : a4:bf:01:03:94:b9
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

bmc-config -h 10.6.0.21 -u tocp -p tocp --checkout --key-pair=Lan_Conf:IP_Address
Section Lan_Conf
## Give valid IP address
IP_Address 10.6.0.14
EndSection

Any kind of pointers/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time & consideration.
Ravi

From:	Ravi DevPro
Subject:	Re: [Freeipmi-devel] Requesting suggestions to resolve an bmc/ipmi issue
Date:	Tue, 5 Sep 2017 14:35:18 +0530