From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 17 16:55:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C8C916B2C6 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 16:55:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jason+lists.freebsd-questions@lixfeld.ca) Received: from eshara.ebit.ca (eshara.ebit.ca [69.90.17.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95C3643D6E for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 16:55:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jason+lists.freebsd-questions@lixfeld.ca) Received: from [216.7.194.254] (helo=[192.168.100.191]) by eshara.ebit.ca with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1FgPJ6-000Go0-NY; Wed, 17 May 2006 12:55:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <446B49AD.2070805@thingy.com> References: <4F6E19E5-CB85-40E8-8E00-42EDCD9483F2@lixfeld.ca> <20060516130121.1660ab5d.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20060517084014.2ae43ecf.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <040C0BC2-E889-4015-831A-25771CB7502A@lixfeld.ca> <446B49AD.2070805@thingy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jason Lixfeld Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 12:55:28 -0400 To: Howard Jones X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Questions about monitoring Dell servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 16:55:41 -0000 On 17-May-06, at 12:05 PM, Howard Jones wrote: > Jason Lixfeld wrote: >> Well, I managed to sort it out. The grey area was that the Dell >> BMC just needed an IP, username and password configured on it. I >> was under the mistaken impression that the OpenIPMI needed to be >> installed to speak the BMC, but ipmitools does that just fine. >> Between the BMC and megarc for the raid status, I have everything >> I need! Well, with the exception of SNMP traps -- still haven't >> figured out how to set the trap host and community, but if worst >> comes to worst, I can use used net-snmp and use the exec options >> in snmpd.conf. >> > Where does this IP address present itself? On an SC1425 we have > here, I can set an IP etc in the BMC BIOS, but it lists a MAC > address there that isn't the same as either of the GigE interfaces > on the mobo. > > Is it overlaid in some strange way, or do I need some sort of > daughterboard? I'd like to get this going for all our Dells if I can. The MAC address on the BMC is different on my 1850s as well. You don't need any daughterboard, it just runs off the onboard NIC and you can even hit it when the power is off on the machine (slick!!). You don't need to configure or compile anything in userland on the system at all, just install ipmitool and you're off to the races: From what I understand, you can't do anything to the IP on the BMC except hit it with something like ipmitool: # ipmitool -I lan -H 192.168.100.100 -U root channel info Password: Channel 0x1 info: Channel Medium Type : 802.3 LAN Channel Protocol Type : IPMB-1.0 Session Support : session-based Active Session Count : 1 Protocol Vendor ID : 7154 Volatile(active) Settings Alerting : disabled Per-message Auth : disabled User Level Auth : enabled Access Mode : always available Non-Volatile Settings Alerting : disabled Per-message Auth : disabled User Level Auth : enabled Access Mode : always available # > Cheers, > > Howie >