2950 remote access howto?

[Christof Haerens]

Marcus Franke wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:40:37PM +0100, Christof Haerens wrote:
>   
>>> Have a look for OpenIPMI. With this package you can access the
>>> BMC, which has to be configured first.
>>>
>>> You have to configure the BMC before the OS starts, there is a
>>> message during the startup process after the SCSI Controller messages if
>>> I remember correctly.
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Marcus
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>       
>> This is wat I did. I pressed the CTRL-r (I think it was the r) while the 
>> bios printed the "Remote acces configuration 5..4..3..2..1" message and 
>> configured the remote access ip, netmask, gw, username ansd password. I 
>> also download the OpenIPMI-Tools (from fedora yum) and the racadm rpms 
>> (from dell).
>> I'm currently not at the machine. The machine is down (put power is 
>> connected). I can ping the ip address I gave to the remote access. But 
>> ipmitool (from OpenIPMI-Tools) and racadm (from dell) both fails with 
>> message they can't connect. A telnet to the ip on port 623 (which should 
>> be the default ipmi port) also fails.
>> I haven't tried all this when the machine was up, but one of the 
>> advantages of the remote access was controlling the chassis power.
>>
>>     
>
> Hm, one possible problem, which troubled me for a while:
>
> when you enter username and password, this bios thingy has an
> american keyboard layout with z where I have y on my german 
> layout on the lower left beside the x key.
>
> I just asked my belgium colleague and he explained to me on
> your keyboard layout is even different from american/german
> with Q and A and W and Y/Z are changed.
>
> So, by chance you used an american password during setup. Which is what
> happend to me :)
>
>
> kind regards,
> Marcus
>
>
>   

Good thinking but helas... My password contains indeed a 'swapped' key, 
but I tried both keyboard layouts ...

Tonight I will have access to the machine and then I can try the 
ipmitool while the machine is running (gentoo). the OS also uses the 
NIC1 (eth1), but it has a different IP. When the machine is running I 
can ping both the remote access ip (192.168.3.226) and the OS ip 
(192.168.3.221).


Kind regards,
Christof
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