Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 13:16:47 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Subject: Re: SuperMicro IPMI/SOL and ipmitool troubles Message-ID: <D912F65F-70A1-492A-B0F2-84D62AFEA7BC@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <CAPS9%2BStJU-_vTKNd54C6R91rs=5Lr5gM9PGu-hCrRpZb0pjEFg@mail.gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1411112022500.25949@woozle.rinet.ru> <3C955A8F-9D1A-463B-BB9A-256C36BF0D4C@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1411112226450.25949@woozle.rinet.ru> <CAPS9%2BSuvWq1vtBw8K3J5NRs30272MV7EgkFMT57A=FspeZvCbQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAPS9%2BSv4kNjR=69kWEf8zhAXGBpRYmULZm8AnFxSscBiw2wwiw@mail.gmail.com> <CAPS9%2BSu970ukYwbYcfzrrC=hMnT61CQzYRd-6RaoLiW42BK4Dw@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1411120417590.25949@woozle.rinet.ru> <CAPS9%2BStJU-_vTKNd54C6R91rs=5Lr5gM9PGu-hCrRpZb0pjEFg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12 Nov 2014, at 19:43, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> wrote: > unclear is the word for it :) And thanks for looking into this. ipmi/ilo is > important on a server os. > > I found a reference to it in a ML post: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-February/072464.html I started that thread :) I did get it working on the hardware I was using (Supermicro X9SCL-F and X8SIL-F) I used the following BIOS settings • Remote Access - Enabled • Serial Port Number - COM3 • Serial Port Mode - 115200, 8, n, 1 • Flow Control - Hardware • Redirection After BIOS POST - Always • Terminal Type - VT100 • VT-UTF8 Combo Key Support - Disabled • Sredir Memory Display Delay - No Delay And the following in loader.conf # Give preference to VGA console console="vidconsole,comconsole" # Uncomment below and comment above to give serial console preference #console="comconsole,vidconsole" comconsole_speed="115200" boot_multicons="YES" hint.uart.0.flags="0x0" hint.uart.2.at="isa" hint.uart.2.port="0x3E8" hint.uart.2.flags="0x30" And this in /etc/ttys # IPMI console # Note: The Java console viewer doesn't seem to be very smart as it doesn't # properly support VT100 cuau2 "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire.115200" vt100 on secure I could then access it using ipmitool like so ipmitool -H remoteip -U ADMIN -I lanplus sol activate [login] export TERM=xterm Note that I wanted vidconsole by default because mostly the systems were used by people local to them, however we could break into the loader and type 'set console=comconsole,vidconsole’ and then get everything over the serial console for remote trouble shooting. You may also wish to check the IPMI configuration via the web interface - by default it will failover to port 0 and it has terrible default passwords. I changed the passwords and forced it to use the dedicated IPMI port even if nothing was connected to it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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