Problem with OMSA 5.5 or OpenIPMI? /dev/ipmi0 does not exist

[Charles H Biel]

Hi All,

    Here is a problem I discovered in my testing of OpenManage 5.5, not sure
if I "properly" solved it, but I do have it working on a test system that
would not display what I expected to see in OpenManage before. Here are my
notes. Perhaps this is a bug to bring to RedHat's or Dell's attention, just
wondering if anyone else has had a similar problem. Testing done on a Dell
PE1750 with RHEL 5.2 in case it matters.

Thanks,
Charles

[root at test]# sh srvadmin-install.sh -x

Installing the selected packages.

warning: srvadmin-cm-5.5.0-364.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, 
key ID 23b66a9d
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
    1:srvadmin-omilcore      ########################################### [  8%]
      To start all installed services without a reboot,
      enter the following command:  srvadmin-services.sh  start
    2:srvadmin-syscheck      ########################################### [ 15%]
    3:srvadmin-deng          ########################################### [ 23%]
    4:srvadmin-omauth        ########################################### [ 31%]
    5:srvadmin-omacore       ########################################### [ 38%]
    6:srvadmin-jre           ########################################### [ 46%]
    7:srvadmin-ipmi          ########################################### [ 54%]
    8:srvadmin-hapi          ########################################### [ 62%]
    9:srvadmin-isvc          ########################################### [ 69%]
   10:srvadmin-cm            ########################################### [ 77%]
   11:srvadmin-iws           ########################################### [ 85%]
   12:srvadmin-omhip         ########################################### [ 92%]
   13:srvadmin-storage       ########################################### [100%]
[root at test]# srvadmin-services.sh  start
Starting mptctl:
Waiting for mptctl driver registration to complete:
                                                            [  OK  ]

Starting Systems Management Device Drivers:
Starting dell_rbu:                                         [  OK  ]
Starting ipmi driver:                                      [  OK  ]
Starting Systems Management Device Drivers:
Starting dell_rbu: Already started                         [  OK  ]
Starting ipmi driver:                                      [  OK  ]
Starting Systems Management Data Engine:
Starting dsm_sa_datamgr32d:                                [  OK  ]
Starting dsm_sa_eventmgr32d:                               [  OK  ]
Starting dsm_sa_snmp32d:                                   [  OK  ]
Starting DSM SA Shared Services:                           [  OK  ]

Starting DSM SA Connection Service:                        [  OK  ]

[root at test]# srvadmin-services.sh status
dell_rbu (module) is stopped
ipmi driver is stopped
dsm_sa_datamgr32d is stopped
dsm_sa_eventmgr32d is stopped
dsm_sa_snmp32d is stopped
dsm_om_shrsvc32d (pid 30987) is running
dsm_om_connsvc32d (pid 31053 31052) is running

[root at test]# /sbin/service ipmi status
ipmi_msghandler module loaded.
ipmi_si module loaded.
ipmi_devintf module loaded.
/dev/ipmi0 does not exist.

Thanks to http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net/manpage.html, I found that this
fixes me up:

[root at test]#mknod /dev/ipmi0 c 254 0


It appears the /dev/ipmi0 entry should have been made by /etc/rc.d/init.d/ipmi
but I guess it's not happening.

Perhaps it's due to this update from Red Hat. I didn't have this problem last
week on other systems I tested, only since this update.

Updated: OpenIPMI.i386 0:2.0.6-6.el5_2.2 OpenIPMI-libs.i386 
0:2.0.6-6.el5_2.2

Details:

Bug Fix Advisory - RHBA-2008:0909-4
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Summary:
OpenIPMI bug fix update

Complete information about this errata can be found at the following location:
https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/errata/details/Details.do?eid=7721