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By: Christian

Christian — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:33:01 +0000

great article ! thank you !
i am now able to monitor the DELL R200 with IPMI.
I am running XEN Server on the R200.
Since it’s CentOS it also works fine.

By: Digimer

Digimer — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:51:19 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks for this article. I was able to adapt it pretty easily for my ‘ASUS ASMB3-SOL PLUS’ IPMI BMC. Saved me a lot of hassle. :)

By: Dell 1650 server and IPMI support on CentOS 5 | Eric R. Thern

Dell 1650 server and IPMI support on CentOS 5 | Eric R. Thern — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:27:39 +0000

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By: aerosmith

aerosmith — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:36:48 +0000

is there any neat document on how to configure the sending traps using IPMI. We are running suse 9 ES with IPMI 2

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[dacrib.net] » Blog Archive » Who needs an ipkvm? — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:57:45 +0000

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By: Shyam Hushangabadkar

Shyam Hushangabadkar — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:07:47 +0000

Hi,
I read this article. Its nice. However I was having some other error

when I reboot remote system I get following errors:

Error: No response to keepalive-Terminating sesn
Error: No response de-activating SOL payload

Any idea about this.

Thanks,
Shyam

By: Mike Shaver

Mike Shaver — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:30:39 +0000

I just tried to set this up using Centos 5′s OpenIPMI tools on a PE850, and after issuing the initial command[*], the machine lost contact with the network completely. Someone suggested that the BMC and the broadcom network bits might be fighting with each other, but I wasn’t able to find any more details. Sadly, I didn’t heed your proximity warnings and someone is walking to the datacenter to revive the machine for me now…

[*] ipmitool -I open lan set 1 ipaddr 10.1.1.4

By: nickyp

nickyp — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:12:46 +0000

The SOL can show you the boot-time info (just add console=ttyS0,19200n8 to the kernel parameters in grub) and of course will give you a nice login if you run a agetty in your initab.

I use the IPMI on 1850′s and 1950′s but for some reason console redirection is really flaky on the 1850′s. You have to use a SOL proxy program running on another machine. You connect to that through telnet, and the proxy redirects from/to a machine.

But I keep getting timeouts and disconnects when trying to do something useful. For this reason performing a remote PXE boot and re-install is completely unusable. I haven’t tried this on the 1950′s, these machines have IPMI 2.0 and you should be able to do console redirection through ipmitool only.

I have to add I’m running the 1850′s on a VLAN, and with the BMC configuration not using any VLAN designation. Maybe that’s the problem, but I’m guessing the SOL proxy is just plain Dell crap.

I’ve also got a Sun X2100 server with a Tyan IPMI 1.5 board, and that just works perfectly in every way (on the same VLAN), so Dell can still learn something from Sun/Tyan ;-)

By: Bob Plankers

Bob Plankers — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:33:55 +0000

That is cool. I’ve done very little with the Serial-over-LAN stuff. I might have to give it a shot if it’s working for you. Does it do the POST/boot-time console stuff, too, or just work once you have a running OS?

By: Scott Dodson

Scott Dodson — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:05:12 +0000

I’m using IPMI2 Serial over LAN with our PE1950s. By default the Dells provide this on ttyS1 at 57600.

I’ve then tied this in with conmux to provide a seamless console solution across many different platforms. It will be nice once everything provides IPMI, until then I’ve got a variety of console access methods, it’s nice to abstract away all the differences.

http://test.kernel.org/autotest/AutoTest?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=conmux.html

By: Configuring and Securing IPMI on Dell PowerEdge x8xx Hardware : Bob Plankers, The Lone Sysadmin

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:59:31 +0000

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