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Date:      Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:28:37 +0300
From:      Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To:        "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "Matthew X. Economou" <xenophon@irtnog.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and IPMI how-to (was Re: su problem)
Message-ID:  <E1SfRtV-0005ME-9k@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>
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> Hi, all,
>=20
>=20
> Am 15.06.2012 um 03:27 schrieb Matthew X. Economou:
> > Daniel Braniss writes:
> >=20
> >> just for the record, serial on 8.x works fine=21 the device naming
> >> has changed from sio to uart, and maybe some features. We use it
> >> on all our servers, even redirecting it where possible via
> >> ILO,IMPI,DRAC.  and is great for debuging or saving long trips :-)
> >=20
> > 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.
> > > Did you
> > 	kldload ipmi
> ?
> > What's the output of
> > 	dmesg> 	kldstat
> > after loading the module?
> > With the module loaded, you should be able to get something like this=
:
> > devel=23 ipmitool sensor
> Ambient          =7C 23.500     =7C degrees C  =7C ok    =7C na        =
=7C 1.000   =3D  =7C 6.000     =7C 37.000    =7C 42.000    =7C na        =

> Systemboard      =7C 32.000     =7C degrees C  =7C ok    =7C na        =
=7C na      =3D  =7C na        =7C 60.000    =7C 65.000    =7C na        =

> CPU1             =7C 49.000     =7C degrees C  =7C ok    =7C na        =
=7C na      =3D  =7C na        =7C 93.000    =7C 97.000    =7C na        =

> CPU2             =7C 48.000     =7C degrees C  =7C ok    =7C na        =
=7C na      =3D  =7C na        =7C 93.000    =7C 97.000    =7C na        =

> ...
=5B...=5D

the ipmi kernel module allows interfacing/communicating with the 'local s=
ystem', which is nice,
unless the kernel went bonkers.

You can - after some configuring(*) - connect from another host via somet=
hing like:
 ipmitool -A MD5 -H <remote-host-ipmi-module-ip-address> -U root -I lanpl=
us sol activate
and get the remote host console, or do a power cycle:
 ipmitool -A MD5 -H  <remote-host-ipmi-module-ip-address> -U root power c=
ycle


danny
*: you need configure/enable the bios/drac.






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