On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:51:37PM -0500, Kaerka Phillips wrote: > I've had this issue before with PE1750, PE1850's and a few 2850's. Most of > the time, reapplying the ESM/BMC firmware fixes it, but in one case, I think > we had to replace the ESM and riser card (I think I'm remembering this > correctly).
The problem is that in current state I don't have IPMI communication from within the system to mobo. To update ESM firmware I need to have working /dev/ipmi0. Is there any way to update ESM firmware without working IPMI device? > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Mikolaj Kucharski > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have unknown 'ESM Version' as shown below, and when server is booting > > during POST screen it's written: > > > > Embedded server management is not present > > > > > > but it is present, and I cannot communicate with it. Is there any way to > > reset it or is it possible that ESM/BMC got broken even if DRAC is working? > > I already tried to unplug the server from power and wait 30 seconds. > > > > > > Is there a way to replace it if I have spare servers which > > are in our broken servers pool, but have good mobo? > > > > > > # racadm -r 192.168.234.236 -u root -p calvin getsysinfo > > > > RAC Information: > > RAC Date/Time = DSU+01:50:57 > > Firmware Version = 3.38 (Build 12.14) > > Firmware Updated = DSU+00:16:09 > > Hardware Version = A04 > > Current IP Address = 192.168.50.181 > > Current IP Gateway = 192.168.50.1 > > Current IP Netmask = 255.255.255.0 > > DHCP enabled = FALSE > > Current DNS Server 1 = 192.168.0.5 > > Current DNS Server 2 = 192.168.0.6 > > DNS Servers from DHCP = FALSE > > PCMCIA Card Info = N/A > > > > System Information: > > System ID = > > System Model = > > BIOS Version = > > Asset Tag = > > Service Tag = > > Hostname = > > OS name = > > ESM Version = Unknown > > > > Watchdog Information: > > Recovery Action = No Action > > Present countdown value = 0 > > Initial countdown value = 0 > > > > RAC Firmware Status Flags: > > Global Reset Pending Flag = 0 -- best regards q# _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
