IPMI doesn't work...

[Thomas Foster]

How are you attempting to manage the server.. via a command line or terminal 
emulation software directly to the BMC?  What amangement software ships with 
the IBM?  Once the kernel loads, you need to perform SOL (serial redirection 
over LAN), or use management software the speaks directly with the BMC..

Just curious a little bit more about your setup

T
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Behl" <behl at santaba.com>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 11:25 AM
Subject: IPMI doesn't work...


> on a 5.3 amd64 system.  anyone have any luck or know anything about this? 
> i can query variables right up until the point where the kernel loads, 
> then nothing.  ibm is saying this can be caused by the actual net driver 
> (the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) shares the network interface); 
> we're using a Broadcom BCM5704C Dual gig adapter:
>
> bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2003> mem 
> 0xfe000000-0xfe00ffff,0xfe010000-0xfe01ffff irq 24 at device 1.0 on pci2
>
> anyone have any idea why this may be the case?  unfortunately for me and 
> others, the inability to remotely manage boxes (console/power cycle/detect 
> drive failures/etc) via will be a deal breaker in our push for FBSD in our 
> fleet (couple hundred) of dual proc amd64 IBM e325 servers.  SuSe here we 
> come (unwillingly)...
>
> thx
>
>
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