Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 07:27:58PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
Default Gateway IP : 192.168.0.100 Default Gateway MAC : 00:25:90:0a:42:87
No, that does not look right. You have configured the gateway of the IPMI to be the host OS side of the NIC. You can't do that... in a lot of systems I've seen, the IPMI side of the NIC can't even talk to the host OS on the network.
From previous emails, I gather that mark can't find the way to set which interface the IPMI BMC uses, so he's setting the BMC's IP settings to use one of the NICs as a gateway. This is not how you make that setting (it won't work) but I can see where he's coming from.
In my experience, it's either hard-wired to a particular interface. This should be documented, otherwise you need another computer on the same network or connected with a crossover cable to figure it out.
Sometimes you can set the interface that IPMI uses in the BIOS or through 'ipmitool'.
<snip> Thanks for the info; the thing I never understood in the documentation was the business of "shared with lomx" - is that for a second management port?
Aos, my manager tells me to think of the BMC as a completely separate computer, which it is, but that has *no* contact with the o/s.
On the other hand... *sigh* - I've solved the original issue: y'see, the server's just below the middle of my chest in the rack, and the fans stick out about a cm or two. I went back into the room last night, with a flashlight... and bent down, and lo and behold, there *was* a perfectly good management port. Connected that, did a warm reboot of the bmc, and all is well.
My manager, the other admin I work with, and I were all too tall to see the port, so I guess there is some use for short people*....
mark
* Of course I'm hearing Randy Newman's Short People in my head.