SuperMicro IPMI/SOL and ipmitool troubles

[Andreas Nilsson]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:10 AM, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck at rinet.ru>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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 ]
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck at rinet.ru ***
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>> Well,
>>
>> I just performed my upgrade from 9.2 to 9.3 and now serial does not work
>> anymore, so something funky is going on.
>>
>> I made sure to copy both the loader.conf and ttys file just to be sure. I
>> see the loader loading modules, but as soon as kernel takes over serial
>> console goes quiet :/
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Andreas
>>
>
> Some more data points:
> The difference between working and non-working serial console are one
> single line in loader.conf:
> hw.uart.console=1234
>
> loader.conf looks like:
>
> zfs_load="YES"
>
> geom_mirror_load="YES"
>
> ipfw_load="YES"
>
> ipmi_load="YES"
>
> coretemp_load="YES"
>
> beastie_disable="YES"
>
> boot_serial="YES"
>
> boot_multicons="YES"
>
> console="comconsole,vidconsole"
>
>
> hint.uart.0.port="0x3E8"
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> hint.uart.0.irq="10"
>
> hw.uart.console="1234"
>
> hint.acpi_throttle.0.disbled=1
>
> net.inet.ip.fw.default_to_accept=1
>
> Best regards
> Andreas
>

Oh,
setting hw.uart.console=1234
renders me with a working serial console over iLO on the HP machine as well
( HP dl360 g5 ilo2-2.22 )

Best regards
Andreas