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Date:      Fri, 14 Nov 2014 13:16:47 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
Subject:   Re: SuperMicro IPMI/SOL and ipmitool troubles
Message-ID:  <D912F65F-70A1-492A-B0F2-84D62AFEA7BC@gsoft.com.au>
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On 12 Nov 2014, at 19:43, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> wrote:
> unclear is the word for it :) And thanks for looking into this. =
ipmi/ilo is
> important on a server os.
>=20
> I found a reference to it in a ML post:
> =
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-February/072464.htm=
l

I started that thread :)
I did get it working on the hardware I was using (Supermicro X9SCL-F and =
X8SIL-F)

I used the following BIOS settings
	=95 Remote Access - Enabled
	=95 Serial Port Number - COM3
	=95 Serial Port Mode - 115200, 8, n, 1
	=95 Flow Control - Hardware
	=95 Redirection After BIOS POST - Always
	=95 Terminal Type - VT100
	=95 VT-UTF8 Combo Key Support - Disabled
	=95 Sredir Memory Display Delay - No Delay

And the following in loader.conf
# Give preference to VGA console
console=3D"vidconsole,comconsole"
# Uncomment below and comment above to give serial console preference
#console=3D"comconsole,vidconsole"
comconsole_speed=3D"115200"
boot_multicons=3D"YES"
hint.uart.0.flags=3D"0x0"
hint.uart.2.at=3D"isa"
hint.uart.2.port=3D"0x3E8"
hint.uart.2.flags=3D"0x30"

And this in /etc/ttys
# IPMI console
# Note: The Java console viewer doesn't seem to be very smart as it =
doesn't
# properly support VT100
cuau2   "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire.115200"       vt100   on secure

I could then access it using ipmitool like so
ipmitool -H remoteip -U ADMIN -I lanplus sol activate
[login]
export TERM=3Dxterm

Note that I wanted vidconsole by default because mostly the systems were =
used by people local to them, however we could break into the loader and =
type 'set console=3Dcomconsole,vidconsole=92 and then get everything =
over the serial console for remote trouble shooting.

You may also wish to check the IPMI configuration via the web interface =
- by default it will failover to port 0 and it has terrible default =
passwords. I changed the passwords and forced it to use the dedicated =
IPMI port even if nothing was connected to it.

--
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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