Jefferson Ogata wrote: > On 2010-05-20 16:14, Marc Moreau wrote: > >> I'm looking to setup Serial over Lan on my cluster of PowerEdge 1950's. >> Does anyone have this setup? >> > > Sure. Use it all the time. >
Yes - here too - using ipmitool on Debian. I use pretty much the same setup with Dell PE 860/1950/R210, Intel SR1500/SSR212MC2, and a couple of different Tyan boxes too. Dell's IPMI implementation is reasonable, but for some weird reason, they want to develop proprietary tools to manage it - what's wrong with just working with the existing open source tools? They seem to work pretty well, and have less wacky interfaces than the Dell-proprietary stuff. I *really* don't get this policy. > 2. In BMC setup (control-E during POST), enable serial over LAN, set IP > and password. > > ** First thing you should do in BMC setup is reset to default. The BMCs > often ship with a weird non-default setting that will cause lots of > serial port feedback if you try to run a getty on the serial console Actually, a guy I work with ( David from Positive Internet ) recently fixed that on poweredge 1950s with: ipmitool raw 0x06 0x40 0x02 0xb8 0x84 ipmitool raw 0x06 0x40 0x02 0x78 0x44 He got this from tracing what the Dell proprietary binary did..... Cheers, Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309 _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
