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July 17, 2011

How to Install supermicro IPMI in a linux server

Posted by: admin  :  Category: Hardware
Once has been installed and it boots up, the IP and MAC address of the card have to be configured. Use the “ipnmac” to set the MAC and IP address for the card. This command has to be run via and prompts for the new ip and mac address.

For the GPC agent to run, the drivers need to be installed on the managed system. The default FC3 build has   loadable modules. The modules are ipmi_devinf and ipmi_si (located in /lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi).

The ipmi_si need special parameters for loading. This was tested on a 2.6.10 kernel.

It does not work with the 2.6.9-1.667(smp) kernel in the FC3 package.

modprobe ipmi_si type=kcs ports=0xca8 si_regspacings=4.

Once these modules are up and running, start the .

 $ smagent &
If you tried running this daemon, the system entered the graceful restart state whenever smagent started. Make sure it works before adding to rc.local/login script(this leads to a restart loop).

Use the IPMIview Java utility from the remote system to access the IPMI card. Since IPMI is designed to be OS transparent, this utility does not need any modules to be installed in the kernel. If this does not work, run IPMIview in the same LAN and configure the gateway MAC and IP .

The IPMIview tool allows power shutdown, reset, and monitoring. The IPMI console redirection did not work though everything seemed to be configured properly. The BIOS on the P8SCi is supposed to detect the IPMI card automatically and set the console redirection options for it. Unfortunately, we were still seeing garbage in the remote console.

The current BIOS version of 1.1 shows the redirection going to “NULL” instead of something understandable like IPMI, COM1, etc.

The was to get the latest P8SCI BIOS firmware (rev1.1) and re-flash it on the managed system. We had to do this even though the current BIOS on the board indictated it was already version 1.1.

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