Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:52:17 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: IPMI SOL setup on FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 supermicro X9SCM-F/X9CL-F Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20130121123250.067f3158@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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I have a couple servers that are built using the supermicro X9SCM-F/X9CL-F
motherboards, and I can't quite get IPMI SOL working right.
These motherboards have 3 NIC's. One NIC is for a dedicated IPMI interface.
I have both servers configured to use the dedicated IPMI NIC and these
NIC's are plugged into a separate unmanaged switch.
Both systems boards are set to redirect com1. I changed /etc/ttys to run a
getty on /dev/ttyu0. I have com1 configured to 115,200 baud, 8, n, 1, no
flowcontrol in the BIOS. I in have /etc/ttys:
ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200" vt100 on secure
Using one server, I start an IPMI SOL session to the other server. But all
I get is the IPMI SOL output, no login prompt.
If I reboot the server I am SOL connected to, I do see the BIOS boot
messages, and even the initial FreeBSD boot prompt. I can even make boot
prompt changes from the SOL session. Once boot starts the SOL gets no more
output.
I looked at both servers and the one I am using to initiate the SOL has
/dev/ipmi0 and ipmitool working fine. On the server I am trying to connect
to has /dev/ipmi1 and ipmitool errors:
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No
such file or directory
These are identical motherboards.
I suspect that because the one system creates /dev/ipmi1 instead of
/dev/ipmi0 may be why the SOL output stops right after the boot starts.
If I do:
ln -s /dev/ipmi1 /dev/ipmi0
ipmitool works fine, until the next reboot.
How can I get the one system to make /dev/ipmi0 instead of /dev/ipmi1?
In FreeBSD 9.1 do I use hint.uart instead of hint.sio in /boot/loader.conf?
Any help would be appreciated.
-Derek
derek at computinginnovations.com
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