FreeBSD and IPMI how-to (was Re: su problem)

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Hi, all,


Am 15.06.2012 um 03:27 schrieb Matthew X. Economou:
> Daniel Braniss writes:
> 
>> just for the record, serial on 8.x works fine! the device naming
>> has changed from sio to uart, and maybe some features. We use it
>> on all our servers, even redirecting it where possible via
>> ILO,IMPI,DRAC.  and is great for debuging or saving long trips :-)
> 
> Would some kind soul point me to a howto for configuring IPMI on
> FreeBSD?  I have a Dell PowerEdge 840 that supports IPMI, but I have
> no idea how to set it up - either in the BIOS or in FreeBSD.  I've
> messed around with ipmitools a little, but I haven't gotten it to
> work.


Did you

	kldload ipmi
?

What's the output of

	dmesg
	kldstat

after loading the module?

With the module loaded, you should be able to get something like this:

devel# ipmitool sensor
Ambient          | 23.500     | degrees C  | ok    | na        | 1.000     | 6.000     | 37.000    | 42.000    | na        
Systemboard      | 32.000     | degrees C  | ok    | na        | na        | na        | 60.000    | 65.000    | na        
CPU1             | 49.000     | degrees C  | ok    | na        | na        | na        | 93.000    | 97.000    | na        
CPU2             | 48.000     | degrees C  | ok    | na        | na        | na        | 93.000    | 97.000    | na        
...
FAN1 SYS         | 6120.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | 1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na        
FAN2 SYS         | 6480.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | 1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na        
FAN3 SYS         | 6000.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | 1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na        
FAN4 SYS         | 6480.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | 1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na        
FAN5 SYS         | 6120.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | 1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na        
FAN6 SYS         | 6480.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | 1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na        
FAN7 SYS         | 6120.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | 1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na        
FAN8 SYS         | 6480.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | 1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na        
FAN9 SYS         | 6240.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | 1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na        
FAN10 SYS        | 6720.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | 1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na        
FAN11 SYS        | 6240.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | 1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na        
FAN12 SYS        | 6720.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        | 1920.000  | na        | na        | na        | na        
PSU1 Power       | 100.000    | Watts      | ok    | na        | na        | na        | na        | na        | na        
PSU2 Power       | 96.000     | Watts      | ok    | na        | na        | na        | na        | na        | na        
Total Power      | 196.000    | Watts      | ok    | na        | na        | na        | na        | na        | na        
Total Power Out  | 172.000    | Watts      | ok    | na        | na        | na        | na        | na        | na        
...


Kind regards,
Patrickj
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