SuperMicro IPMI/SOL and ipmitool troubles
Dmitry Morozovsky
marck at rinet.ru
Tue Nov 11 18:10:12 UTC 2014
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Steven Hartland wrote:
> > I'm trying to set up sol console for supermicro servers, reading some
> > documents
> > including TestClusterOne, mainly:
> >
> > > For serial redirection to work, in the BIOS you need to redirect to com
> > > port
> > > B and in /boot/device.hints you need hint.uart.1.flags="0x10" and enable
> > > getty on
> > > cuau1
> > I can see BIOS screen ok; boot1/2 and boot/loader work fine also. However,
> > I
> > could not see kernel console output via SOL, neither getty on ttyu1 works.
> > I tried different speeds, std vs 3wire, explicitely set console=comconsole
> > vidconsole -- no luck.
> >
> > I even trued to use `ipmitool sol activate' on one side and `tip -115200
> > com2'
> > on the other -- stiil no data between.
> >
> > Any hints?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > For the reference:
> >
> > marck at centipede:~> ipmitool -H mc26.int -U root -I lanplus sol info
> > Password:
> > Set in progress : set-complete
> > Enabled : true
> > Force Encryption : false
> > Force Authentication : false
> > Privilege Level : USER
> > Character Accumulate Level (ms) : 0
> > Character Send Threshold : 0
> > Retry Count : 0
> > Retry Interval (ms) : 0
> > Volatile Bit Rate (kbps) : 115.2
> > Non-Volatile Bit Rate (kbps) : 115.2
> > Payload Channel : 1 (0x01)
> > Payload Port : 623
> >
> This is what we use:
> http://blog.multiplay.co.uk/2012/12/freebsd-serial-over-lan/
Hm. Does not seem to work for me, for 10.1: I set all the values at loader
prompt, issue `boot -s' -- and then, last loader line (kernel load process)
goes to both java KVM and sol, and then kernel messages only to KVM, and
finally prompt for single user shell -- nowhere :(
--
Sincerely,
D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer: marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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