2950 remote access howto?

[Christof Haerens]

Marcus Franke wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:09:14PM -0000, Duncan Hill wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, March 21, 2007 13:59, Christof Haerens wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> # ipmitool -l lan -Uroot -a -H 192.168.3.226 power reset
>>> Password:
>>> Error: Unable to establish LAN session
>>> ipmi_lan_send_cmd failed to open intf Unable to set Chassis Power Control
>>> to Reset #
>>> # ping 192.168.3.226
>>> PING 192.168.3.226 (192.168.3.226) 56(84) bytes of data.
>>> 64 bytes from 192.168.3.226: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=34.5 ms
>>> 64 bytes from 192.168.3.226: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=34.0 ms
>>>       
>> Peculiar.  'Works for Me.'
>>
>> I do, however, never use an IP on the BMC that I'm using on the machine
>> itself.
>>
>>     
>
> Same here, we have a separate range of addresses for the bmc cards.
>
> But my guess for this error message is a wrong password. Those
> ipmi tools aren't very good with correct error messages.
>
> I had the same errors because I did not recognize that the config tool
> uses an american keyboard layout and messed the first password with a
> Y for a Z with the german layout in mind :)
>
>
> regards,
> Marcus
>
>
>   

# racadm -r192.168.3.226 -i getsysinfo
username: root
password: xxxxxxx
A connection to the RAC controller could not be established


racadm also indicates connection problems...

I will review tonight my bios settings for typos.

The BMC has an ip in my OOB range. I use NIC2 (eth0) for production 
traffic and NIC1 (eth1) for OOB OS. So the OS and BMC have a different 
IP (but in the same netmask range) on NIC1. But in my case the server is 
down; so the OS OOB IP is not active ...


kind regards
Christof

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