From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 6 08:20:20 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66F0A16A417 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 08:20:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrej@antiszoc.hu) Received: from mail.webmedia.hu (webmedia.hu [195.70.37.84]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 233DD13C458 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 08:20:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrej@antiszoc.hu) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at webmedia.hu Received: from 195.70.43.76 (SquirrelMail authenticated user andrej@antiszoc.hu) by duloc.webmedia.hu with HTTP; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 10:20:17 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <64050.195.70.43.76.1186388417.squirrel@duloc.webmedia.hu> In-Reply-To: <1186387389.15284.15.camel@localhost> References: <1186382715.15284.2.camel@localhost> <55241.195.70.43.76.1186386009.squirrel@duloc.webmedia.hu> <1186387389.15284.15.camel@localhost> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 10:20:17 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?G=F3t_Andr=E1s?= To: "Nicolas Szalay" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPMI & SuperMicro X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:20:20 -0000 On Hét, Augusztus 6, 2007 10:03 am, Nicolas Szalay wrote: > Le lundi 06 août 2007 à 09:40 +0200, Gót András a écrit : > >> Hi, >> > > Hi, > Hi, > >> From 6.2 it's part of the main kernel. As I know IPMI works fine on >> X2100M2 machines. On these you've to forget the ipmi console, because >> once bge(4) loads it blocks the bridge that the ipmi uses for remote >> console. There was a patch for an older bge(4) driver, but on the 6.2 i >> couldn't patch the driver. (I looked the source, but the two was too >> different, and since I'm not a C programmer I couldn't manage to port.) > > Will I still be able to reboot a frozen machine ? I have only 2 machines > with bge NICs, all others are intel. I don't really know. Our BSD machines don't frooze. :) Really, I didn't have any production FreeBSD that froze. With 4.8 or 4.9 and Intel HTT enabled there were reboots, but on good hardware FreeBSD runs stable. The remote IPMI solution depends on the exact implementation. What I wrote is only for the X2100M2 machines. IMHO If your machines has a bridge that the OS cannot see (so the driver cannot take over) the remote console will work fine. For ipmi install /usr/ports//ipmi-tool and you can monitor your system with munin for example. My collegue wrote a munin plugin: http://muninexchange.projects.linpro.no/?search=&cid=0&os%5B4%5D=on&os%5B7%5D=on&os%5B3%5D=on&os%5B2%5D=on&os%5B5%5D=on&os%5B8%5D=on&os%5B1%5D=on&os%5B6%5D=on&pid=59 For FreeBSD you've to rewrite a little, but if you like I send you my version for the X2100. We would be very thankful if you send your ipmi output with your machine or mainboard version. Then we can extend our plugin. :) > >> When you load ipmi(4) with kldload there may be a some second pause, >> but don't panic then, that's no freeze. :) > > Good to know :) > > > Thanks for feedback, > > > -- > Nicolas Szalay > > > Administrateur systèmes & réseaux > > > -- _ > ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) > - against HTML email X > & vCards / \ > >