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Date:      Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:30:01 +0200
From:      "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
To:        "Matthew X. Economou" <xenophon@irtnog.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and IPMI how-to (was Re: su problem)
Message-ID:  <6EFC18AE-E2EE-4D1E-AE1F-EA547202FE26@punkt.de>
In-Reply-To: <BABF8C57A778F04791343E5601659908236C25@cinip100ntsbs.irtnog.net>
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Hi, all,


Am 15.06.2012 um 03:27 schrieb Matthew X. Economou:
> Daniel Braniss writes:
>=20
>> just for the record, serial on 8.x works fine! the device naming
>> has changed from sio to uart, and maybe some features. We use it
>> on all our servers, even redirecting it where possible via
>> ILO,IMPI,DRAC.  and is great for debuging or saving long trips :-)
>=20
> Would some kind soul point me to a howto for configuring IPMI on
> FreeBSD?  I have a Dell PowerEdge 840 that supports IPMI, but I have
> no idea how to set it up - either in the BIOS or in FreeBSD.  I've
> messed around with ipmitools a little, but I haven't gotten it to
> work.


Did you

	kldload ipmi
?

What's the output of

	dmesg
	kldstat

after loading the module?

With the module loaded, you should be able to get something like this:

devel# ipmitool sensor
Ambient          | 23.500     | degrees C  | ok    | na        | 1.000   =
  | 6.000     | 37.000    | 42.000    | na       =20
Systemboard      | 32.000     | degrees C  | ok    | na        | na      =
  | na        | 60.000    | 65.000    | na       =20
CPU1             | 49.000     | degrees C  | ok    | na        | na      =
  | na        | 93.000    | 97.000    | na       =20
CPU2             | 48.000     | degrees C  | ok    | na        | na      =
  | na        | 93.000    | 97.000    | na       =20
...
FAN1 SYS         | 6120.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | =
1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na       =20
FAN2 SYS         | 6480.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | =
1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na       =20
FAN3 SYS         | 6000.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | =
1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na       =20
FAN4 SYS         | 6480.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | =
1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na       =20
FAN5 SYS         | 6120.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | =
1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na       =20
FAN6 SYS         | 6480.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | =
1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na       =20
FAN7 SYS         | 6120.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | =
1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na       =20
FAN8 SYS         | 6480.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | =
1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na       =20
FAN9 SYS         | 6240.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | =
1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na       =20
FAN10 SYS        | 6720.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | =
1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na       =20
FAN11 SYS        | 6240.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | =
1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na       =20
FAN12 SYS        | 6720.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | =
1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na       =20
PSU1 Power       | 100.000    | Watts      | ok    | na        | na      =
  | na        | na        | na        | na       =20
PSU2 Power       | 96.000     | Watts      | ok    | na        | na      =
  | na        | na        | na        | na       =20
Total Power      | 196.000    | Watts      | ok    | na        | na      =
  | na        | na        | na        | na       =20
Total Power Out  | 172.000    | Watts      | ok    | na        | na      =
  | na        | na        | na        | na       =20
...


Kind regards,
Patrickj
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