Hi everyone. I have been working with some IPMI cards and ipmitool and I am getting very frustrated. So I figured I would ask some people who have more experience than me about this. So here is whats up.
I help maintain a cluster of over 700 machines with most of them being some form of a Supermicro system with Supermicro IPMI cards. Currently, I have machines with the AOC-SIMLC(+) or the AOC-SIMSO(+). All of them work when we receive the machine from our various vendors and are used for at least the system installation since we redirect everything to the serial port for SOL. Now I can't exactly give a time frame on this, but anywhere between like a week and a month or two, the IPMI cards stop responding on the network. No ping, No Web interface, and No response to commands from ipmitool. (I am using -I lanplus if that makes a difference). I have tried several things to try to get the cards to work including doing 'ipmitool bmc reset cold' from the host, reconfiguring the IPMI network settings through 'ipmitool lan set', updating the firmware with the latest from Supermicro, completely power cycling the box, and defaulting then configuring the card using the Supermicro ipmicfg utility. Unfortunately, this is happening on a lot of boxes. Do any of you have any recommendations on things to try? Have any of you had experiences similar to this? Do the Supermicro cards really suck this bad? At first I was thinking it was just one or two bad cards. But after at least 20 doing something like this, I wonder if it is a flaw in the cards. Any information that you all might have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the help. Mike Lovell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
