Hello Albert, op 25-10-14 19:47, Albert Chu schreef: > Hi Paul, > > I doubt there was an issue with reading the wrong values from the BMC. I > have seen many BMCs where the vendor populates the BMC with "poor" choices > of default values. In fact, sometimes I've seen vendors populate the BMC > with illegal values (e.g. 0x1-0x4 are the only legal values, but the > default value populated in the BMC is 0x7).
Doesn't bmc-config read the actual used values, but something else? Is it possible to use a BMC from another vendor? Which vendors make nice and good BMC's? With regards, Paul van der Vlis. > Al > > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Paul van der Vlis <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> [this message did not arrive in the list, so I am sending it again] >> >> Hello, >> >> I would like to tell you about what happened using bmc-config on my >> Supermicro X8DTU-F with Winbond WPCM450 BMC. >> >> This machine has an dedicated IPMI port, but I am using a shared port to >> use less switch ports. >> >> At home I made the network settings in the bios. In the datacenter I had >> to change the IP and I used bmc-config for it to do that remote. But >> IPMI did not work anymore. >> >> I could ping to the IPMI IP, and I saw the webinterface on the IPMI IP, >> but every password was wrong. ipmiping gave a timeout. >> >> After long searching I found the problem, I had to change the setttings >> of Volatile_Access_Mode and Non_Volatile_Access_Mode. They where >> "Disabled" and after I set them to "Always_Available" and a cold-reset >> IPMI did work again. (I've also tried "Shared" but this gave an error). >> >> Not sure how this is possible. I did read the settings from the IPMI >> with: bmc-config -o > bmc-config >> And I've only changed the network settings. >> >> I think bmc-config did read wrong values from the bmc? >> >> When I do that now again, I get the correct values for the access modes, >> but now it was configured with bmc-config. >> >> With regards, >> Paul van der Vlis. >> >> >> >> -- >> Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer, Groningen >> http://www.vandervlis.nl/ >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer, Groningen >> http://www.vandervlis.nl/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freeipmi-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users >> -- Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer, Groningen http://www.vandervlis.nl/ _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
