Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:15:30 +0100 From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> To: "Matthew X. Economou" <xenophon@irtnog.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IPMI how-to (was Re: su problem) Message-ID: <DBEB84F4-6A74-4BE1-9955-D43253A117C3@gid.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <BABF8C57A778F04791343E5601659908236C25@cinip100ntsbs.irtnog.net> References: <201206101128.q5ABShXN007826@lurza.secnetix.de> <E1Sdgh0-0000tK-Fs@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <BABF8C57A778F04791343E5601659908236C25@cinip100ntsbs.irtnog.net>
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Hi, On 15 Jun 2012, at 02:27, Matthew X. Economou wrote: > Would some kind soul point me to a howto for configuring IPMI on > FreeBSD? I have a Dell PowerEdge 840 that supports IPMI, but I have > no idea how to set it up - either in the BIOS or in FreeBSD. I've > messed around with ipmitools a little, but I haven't gotten it to > work. To get things like remote management and serial over LAN working, the = config has to be right on both the OS and the platform. Others have = addressed the FreeBSD end; configuration of the platform is documented = here: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smbmcmu but you'll have to figure out which version is applicable to your box. = When you have ipmitool working, the output of `ipmitool mc info' may = help with that. Also, it seems like your box implements IPMI v1.5, which = is rather less friendly than v2. -- Bob Bishop rb@gid.co.uk
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