Hallo!
First of all, I am not a seasoned ipmi user, i rather resently found out
about this possibility to control computers. I would like to ask how to
use ipmitool to control local computer's ipmi facilities from within
OpenBSD. This computer is IBM System x3550 M2 and here is where i stand
1. i searched archives and found that in the first place ipmi should be
enabled in kernel, so i did
ukc> enable ipmi
and it says in dmesg
ipmi0 at mainbus0: version 2.0 interface KCS iobase 0xca2/2 spacing 1
...
iic0: skipping sensors to avoid ipmi0 interactions
and obviously thanks to this change appeared into sysctl lot of entries
like this
# sysctl hw.sensors.ipmi0
hw.sensors.ipmi0.temp0=22.00 degC (Ambient Temp), OK
hw.sensors.ipmi0.fan0=4081 RPM (Fan 1A Tach), OK
hw.sensors.ipmi0.fan1=2784 RPM (Fan 1B Tach), OK
hw.sensors.ipmi0.fan2=4081 RPM (Fan 2A Tach), OK
hw.sensors.ipmi0.fan3=2880 RPM (Fan 2B Tach), OK
..
hw.sensors.ipmi0.indicator0=On (Power Supply 1), OK
hw.sensors.ipmi0.indicator1=On (Power Supply 2), OK
2. then i installed from ports ipmitool since binary packaged didnt have
open interface enabled
3. when i run ipmitool i get message about missing device
# ipmitool mc info
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No
such file or directory
Get Device ID command failed
I guess that the computer's ipmi system in itself is working all right,
at the moment in its default configuration, since in addition to the
above mentioned sysctl values i can also issue from another computer for
example
# ipmitool -I lanplus -H 10.0.25.138 -U USERID -P xxx mc info
and in return i get an answer as expected.
If somebody could suggest how to proceed to make ipmitool locally work,
i would be very interested!
Best regards,
Imre
PS I also tried freeipmi binary package, it says
# bmc-config
--checkout
ipmi_open_inband: driver path required
