IPMI from LAN does not work

[Harald_Jensas at Dell.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-
> bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Juan Rodriguez
> Sent: 14 February 2008 00:44
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: IPMI from LAN does not work
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We have recently bought some PowerEdge R20 servers.
> 
> I have installed OpenIPMI package and the ipmitool command. We are
> using Centos 5.1
> 
> The problems is that ipmitool works well inside the machine but when I
> try
> to execute it with the IPMI lan ip address I get no response.
> 
> For example, this command works if I am logged into the server:
> 
> ipmitool mc info
> 
> But this one (from another machine) on the same switch, does not:
> 
> ipmitool -I lan -H 10.20.0.41 -U ***** -P ***** mc info
> 

10.20.0.41 is the address you configured on the BMC configuration tool? (CTRL+E) during POST.


> What is the problem ? I have seen some options in the BIOS I can't
> remember well
> right now (COM1/BMC, BMC serial, BMC nic,..... ) what must I choose
> here
> to make this work ?
> 

These are serial redirect settings in the BIOS, you only have to configure this if you want to be able to use the serial console over IPMI via SOL_Proxy.


Regards
Harald Jensås