From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 15 08:28:51 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 2CED9106564A for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:28:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from kabab.cs.huji.ac.il (kabab.cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.84]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC8758FC0A for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:28:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32]) by kabab.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 1SfRtV-0005ME-9k; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:28:37 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.3 To: "Patrick M. Hausen" In-reply-to: <6EFC18AE-E2EE-4D1E-AE1F-EA547202FE26@punkt.de> References: <201206101128.q5ABShXN007826@lurza.secnetix.de> <6EFC18AE-E2EE-4D1E-AE1F-EA547202FE26@punkt.de> Comments: In-reply-to "Patrick M. Hausen" message dated "Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:30:01 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:28:37 +0300 From: Daniel Braniss Message-ID: Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "Matthew X. Economou" 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 08:28:51 -0000 > 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 -U root -I lanpl= us sol activate and get the remote host console, or do a power cycle: ipmitool -A MD5 -H -U root power c= ycle danny *: you need configure/enable the bios/drac.