From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 15 07:16:20 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5FD7106564A for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:16:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from mx0.gid.co.uk (mx0.gid.co.uk [194.32.164.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D398FC0A for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:16:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.237] (87-194-64-74.dsl.cnl.uk.net [87.194.64.74]) by mx0.gid.co.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q5F7Fari096259; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:15:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1278) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Bob Bishop In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:15:30 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <201206101128.q5ABShXN007826@lurza.secnetix.de> To: "Matthew X. Economou" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1278) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IPMI how-to (was Re: su problem) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:16:20 -0000 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