Thanks — I thought of that, but I accidentally used the machine’s usb0 address (.120) instead of the management IP. Looks like that will work great!
> On Sep 11, 2018, at 8:53 PM, Jarrod Johnson <jjohns...@lenovo.com> wrote: > > Well, if you always run it from the same management server, then > 169.254.95.118 would be a viable address if the usb Ethernet interface on the > management node is working, in addition to any external usage of the > management server. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan Novosielski <novos...@rutgers.edu> > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 7:54 PM > To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [External] [xcat-user] IPMI Config for xCAT machine itself > > Hi there, > > We have a few Lenovo GSS/DSS-G storage systems and have just recently started > to look at the GUI. We use a single server to perform the xCAT, storage > cluster quorum node, and the management server for the GUI. We also use the > IPMI in shared mode on basically all of our systems. The GUI/management > system attempt to monitor the xCAT server itself, since it is a member of the > storage cluster for quorum, and reports a problem with xCAT integration. > > The problem is that the xCAT server can’t reach its own IPMI port. We keep > the IPMI IPs on a different subnet, and the xCAT machine has an IP on that > subnet and can reach other IPMI IPs, and other systems with an IP on that > subnet can reach it, but I guess something about sharing the same physical > port prevents this from working. > > Ideally, I’d just set rinv for the xCAT server to use “-I open” for ipmitool, > but there doesn’t seem to be any way to do this. Does anyone have a clever > way around that, or maybe I’m missing a way I can ask for this to happen with > -I open rather than -I lanplus and an IP address? > -- > ____ > || \\UTGERS, > |---------------------------*O*--------------------------- > ||_// the State | Ryan Novosielski - novos...@rutgers.edu > || \\ University | Sr. Technologist - 973/972.0922 (2x0922) ~*~ RBHS Campus > || \\ of NJ | Office of Advanced Research Computing - MSB C630, > Newark > `' > > > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
