Re: OpenIPMI in Lenny is mysterious to me.
Sorry for top post, I'm on a mobile.
My experience is with HP Proliant G4 and G5 servers. In the G4 seriers IMPI compatible HW interface is not present on the BIOS then also not present in operating system.
While in G5 servers, in the BIOS you can active the "Health Interface" and it is detected by the devintf kernel module.
To use the MPI devintf module (I'm almost sure) you have to be sure that in your BIOS is present a compatible IMPI interface for monitoring low level system resources.
Bye.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:04:21
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: OpenIPMI in Lenny is mysterious to me.
On 22/09/10 18:54, Dan Serban wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I am admittedly hopelessly noob with IPMI, though I don't think I'm too
> noob with Linux in general, I apologise if any of my questions are
> elementary. I've googled this ad nauseum so I've come here for some
> help with this.
>
> After installing ipmitool and openipmi in Lenny I am faced with a
> perplexing issue. From the get-go, I could not achieve the results I
> was seeking.
> Time to start ipmi:
>
> # modprobe -a ipmi-si ipmi-devintf
>
> which results with the following STDERR:
>
> WARNING: Error inserting ipmi_devintf
> (/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.ko):
> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>
> Then, in dmesg I see this:
>
> [1012115.045436] ipmi message handler version 39.2
> [1012115.048311] IPMI System Interface driver.
> [1012115.048315] ipmi_si: Trying SMBIOS-specified kcs state machine at
> i/o address 0xca2, slave address 0x20, irq 0
> [1012115.227703] ipmi: Found new BMC (man_id: 0x000157, prod_id:
> 0x003e, dev_id: 0x21)
> [1012115.227703] IPMI kcs interface initialized
> [1012115.235704] ipmi_devintf: Unknown symbol compat_alloc_user_space
>
> # lsmod|grep ipmi returns:
>
> ipmi_si 43628 0
> ipmi_msghandler 38520 1 ipmi_si
>
> It looks like ipmi_devintf doesn't get loaded and from what I've seen in
> the scarce examples that I've found, it should be loaded in order for
> IPMI to function, as it creates the related device under /dev.
>
> Running ipmitool to test functionality returns this:
>
> # ipmitool sdr
> Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No
> such file or directory
> Get Device ID command failed
> Unable to open SDR for reading
>
> At this point, I sit confused, as the documentation is sparse and I'm
> unsure if this is a problem with hardware detection that the module is
> attempting to run the ipmi layer on or if there is a problem with the
> kernel in Lenny. Though, I'm surprised that the keywords "debian ipmi"
> and "lenny ipmi" returns almost nothing useful or relevant in google.
>
> Oh I suppose I should shoot out some facts:
>
> Running Debian Lenny amd64, on an Intel S5520HCR motherboard.
>
> If anyone has any experience with ipmi, I would certainly appreciate
> some feedback.
>
> TIA.
>
>
No recent experience - and none configuring or installing it (IBM
in-house system) - so if that doesn't qualify, read no further.
My first thought would be to try load the modules separately:-
#modprobe ipmi-si
#dmesg | tail
#modprobe ipmi-devintf
etc.. for more clues
also try the same approach with the --show-depends or -f if you're game.
Have you been through the IBM documentation?
I'm presuming you've been through the projects bug tracker
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=36127&atid=416298)
and support requests for clues (also see their forums)
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=36127&atid=416299)
By sparse documentation are you referring to the man or the projects
pdf? IBM have/had a lot of documentation - don't know how much is
available online (I don't have Red Book access here).
Cheers
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