[OmniOS-discuss] IPMI on Dell R720

[Andy]

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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