Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:05:24 -0700 From: Chuck Tuffli <ctuffli@gmail.com> 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: <CAKAYmMKC%2BxS4GRNPUKvz0xgQ2v20L1SzSh6bqBOjqq8ogJ-D8Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BABF8C57A778F04791343E5601659908236C25@cinip100ntsbs.irtnog.net> References: <201206101128.q5ABShXN007826@lurza.secnetix.de> <E1Sdgh0-0000tK-Fs@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <BABF8C57A778F04791343E5601659908236C25@cinip100ntsbs.irtnog.net>
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Matthew X. Economou <xenophon@irtnog.org> wrote: ... > Would some kind soul point me to a howto for configuring IPMI on > FreeBSD? =A0I 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. =A0I've > messed around with ipmitools a little, but I haven't gotten it to > work. We have HP boxes here with IPMI (mostly v1.5), and by and large, there isn't much FreeBSD configuration. The set of things I do for serial over LAN are the same as for a regular serial console: 1) create /boot.config with the line -D -S115200 2) create /boot/loader.conf with the lines boot_multicons=3D"YES" comconsole_speed=3D"115200" console=3D"comconsole,vidconsole" 3) change /etc/ttys to allow a login over the console. something similar to ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200" vt100 on secure The rest of the configuration is in the BIOS and tends to be vendor specific. Once this is configured, you can use something like ipmitool to control power (chassis power on, chassis power reset, ...) and get a serial console (sol activate). HTH. ---chuck
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