From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 16:02:52 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 33049695; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:02:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-x231.google.com (mail-la0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8DA44BD4; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:02:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f49.google.com with SMTP id hs14so745760lab.22 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:02:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=uXtUwO8QHNXjK4KUBlTXiHVlrf6009vVo8URap+rwa0=; b=t3i3SWxAFeQETo+XQ1TXGfI+q2vSenCvbYZD76X3fhR/8wo5mdJ35tvmR60I8ZPjRO KC1y6hyWQFYJDkDKXhdPUoF3tr3K4eC7+P4XdXjcTV1K4uyvTWaxZGNoKnLo6An2I5UH r8FGet7rCjLKZb1DKrurgwoMdUiO2ME+uR2SQdhw1LQfy4/PJJG5yMqTAfYN/M+AK1IH Azrj5rjqk/h3wGDW8OGulf4ZdAmm6Z8CH4z9fMlzWZBapa9xleULyaBZawE5XMRy2sg+ EPlUWmc1a7dibYAiC2RD21k3cv87IpX/0DrALI9oDWLQFUjRE3+6sr5mKe5RWtgaR0da IDrg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.133.138 with SMTP id pc10mr6189601lbb.48.1416412969552; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:02:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.25.170.66 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:02:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <3C955A8F-9D1A-463B-BB9A-256C36BF0D4C@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 17:02:49 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: SuperMicro IPMI/SOL and ipmitool troubles From: Andreas Nilsson To: Dmitry Morozovsky Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: Daniel O'Connor , FreeBSD Stable Mailing List , John Baldwin X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:02:52 -0000 On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > >> Daniel, >> >> nice to see you here too ;) >> >> On Fri, 14 Nov 2014, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> >> > >> > On 12 Nov 2014, at 19:43, Andreas Nilsson 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. >> >> Well, I'm almost done with most of our SM server, even concentrated >> console on >> our console server with such a simple config: >> >> ---- 8< ---- >> # ipmi/sol console template >> default ipmi { >> master localhost; >> type exec; >> exec /usr/local/bin/ipmitool -f /usr/local/etc/ipmi-pass -U >> root -I lanplus -H %.int sol activate; >> execsubst %=cs; >> #idletimeout 6h; >> >> break 0 { string "~B"; } >> } >> >> console gwn1 { include ipmi; } >> console gwn2 { include ipmi; } >> console gwn3 { include ipmi; } >> console gwn4 { include ipmi; } >> console gwn5 { include ipmi; } >> console gwn6 { include ipmi; } >> console gwn7 { include ipmi; } >> console gwn8 { include ipmi; } >> >> console gwc2 { include ipmi; } >> ---- 8< ---- >> >> This has console logging (including possible panics) as a surplus >> >> -- >> Sincerely, >> D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] >> [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > > Hello again, > > Searching on hw.uart.console, I found: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2013-February/044641.html > , a very enlightening thread. > > Basically: "ohh, you want to use something other than COM1 and tried to > get away with just changing hint.uart stuff, which has worked for a while, > ha, no way..." No heads up, nothing. > > Sorry to say jhb@ but is not a rare case. It is if not the default, a > very common setup on every HP server with iLO, and it holds for most all > OOB style serial emulation I have ever had the (dis)pleasure of working > with. > > Best regards > Andreas > > > More fun stuff: On the supermicro machine it is not working to use comconsole_port, as it seems to switch, "redirect after boot" I guess. Specifying hw.uart.console="br:9600" works though, but how to specify that via comconsole_port? (hint, do not put comconsole_port="" in loader.conf) Regards Andreas