[OmniOS-discuss] IPMI on Dell R720

[Dale Ghent]

Thanks for reporting this, Steffen. I've committed a fix (using BUILD_DEPENDS_IPS rather than DEPENDS_IPS) and ticket 62 that Eric opened is now closed. It's in the master and 006 branches.

/dale

On Jul 8, 2013, at 5:00 AM, Steffen Kram <sk at kram.io> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just ran into the same problem with the ipmi on a Supermicro X9SCM-F and had to rebuild the ipmitool package. I think the real problem is, that the omnios build.sh does not declare a dependency for "driver/ipmi". If done so, the configure does pick up 
> 
> checking sys/ipmi.h usability... yes
> checking sys/ipmi.h presence... yes
> checking for sys/ipmi.h… yes
> 
> which is not the case without an installed "driver/ipmi" package:
> 
> checking sys/ipmi.h usability... no
> checking sys/ipmi.h presence... no
> checking for sys/ipmi.h… no
> 
> So I guess this is actually a bug in the omnios build script and should be fixed in core. Is everyone able to file bugs? If so, I'm happy to provide a bug report.
> 
> My fixed version is available from scott.mathematik.uni-ulm.de and you'll find the sources on github (see https://github.com/stefri/omnios-build/tree/uulm.mawi/build/ipmitool).
> 
> Cheers,
> Steffen
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Am 09.06.2013 um 21:58 schrieb Andy <omnios at citrus-it.net>:
> 
>> On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, Andy wrote:
>> 
>> ; On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, takashi ary wrote:
>> ;
>> ; ; Hi Andy,
>> ; ;
>> ; ; Thanks for your comments.
>> ; ;
>> ; ; > This is an incompatibility between the version of IPMI tool included
>> ; ; > in OmniOS and the Dell BMC. I haven't looked into exactly what the
>> ; ; > problem is but 1.8.11 works fine so I just downloaded and built my
>> ; ; > own package around that.
>> ; ;
>> ; ; I built 1.8.12 (not 1.8.11) from modified "configure" file as follows.
>> ;
>> ; I just did the same and it works fine for me too. Sorry for the confusion,
>> ; I had assumed that it was the 1.8.12 version that caused the problem once
>> ; it was solved be me downloading and building my own .11.
>> 
>> 1.8.12 will not connect to a remote BMC for SOL, 1.8.11 will. Apparently
>> that's the reason I built a 1.8.11 package for my servers. Now downgraded
>> again! Not an OmniOS problem unlike the strange ioctl() in the repository
>> version of ipmitool.
>> 
>> v1.8.11
>> 
>> server1# (7) ipmitool -I lanplus -H server2.l -U root -f /tmp/f power status
>> Chassis Power is on
>> server1# (8) ipmitool -I lanplus -H server2.l -U root -f /tmp/f sol activate
>> Error activating SOL payload: Invalid data field in request
>> 
>> v1.8.12
>> 
>> server1# (9) /opt/ipmitool/bin/ipmitool -I lanplus -H server2.l -U root -f /tmp/f power status
>> Chassis Power is on
>> server1# (10) /opt/ipmitool/bin/ipmitool -I lanplus -H server2.l -U root -f /tmp/f sol activate
>> [SOL Session operational.  Use ~? for help]
>> 
>> Private Data Network - Disconnect IMMEDIATELY if not authorised.
>> 
>> server2 console login: ~. [terminated ipmitool]
>> 
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