SuperMicro IPMI/SOL and ipmitool troubles
Dmitry Morozovsky
marck at rinet.ru
Tue Nov 11 19:29:35 UTC 2014
Paul,
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Paul Mather wrote:
> > I'm trying to set up sol console for supermicro servers, reading some documents
>
> Aye, and there's the rub: I've found that the COM port that SOL uses
> varies across different Supermicro server models, and the BIOS support
> for assigning or determining the COM port differs (or is sometimes
> nonexistent) between those servers. :-(
>
> I recently spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out why SOL was
> not working on a particular Supermicro server and it turned out to be
> that the COM port differed to those I'd used in previous setups.
Yes, at least on X8SIE your hint works, swithing to com3 with
# SOL console
boot_multicons="yes"
boot_serial="YES"
console="comconsole vidconsole"
# com3 is ipmi/sol console
comconsole_port="0x3E8"
comconsole_speed="115200"
works, thanks a lot!
Still fighting microcloud blades...
Next thing will be consolidation all these into conserver-com for both logging
and centralized management...
--
Sincerely,
D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer: marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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