[Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

[Gordan Bobic]

On 2016-03-18 02:10, Phong Vo wrote:
> I am following up on this.
> 
> You need to use freeipmi for inband. Ipmitools is for out-of-band
> only.
> 
> + Update kernel to 4.2.0-0.26.el1
> 
> $ yum install i2-tools
> 
> $ yum install freeipimi
> 
> $ insmod i2c-dev
> 
> $ i2cdetect –l
> 
> i2c-0   smbus           MAILBOX I2C                             SMBus
> adapter  << Use this one with freeipmi
> 
> i2c-1   i2c                 AST i2c bit bus
> I2C adapter
> 
> # Get BMC info
> 
> bmc-info --no-probing --driver-type=SSIF --driver-address=0x10
> --driver-device=/dev/i2c-0 --get-device-id –debug
> 
> # Get BMC config (mainly for its IP address)
> 
> $ bmc-config --driver-type=SSIF --driver-address=0x10
> --driver-device=/dev/i2c-0 -o -S Lan_Conf

I don't quite follow what the purpose of the above is, because...

> user at localhost:~$ ipmitool -I lanplus -H <BMC IP address>  -U admin -P
> password fru print
> 
> user at localhost:~$ ipmitool -I lanplus -H <BMC IP address>  -U admin -P
> password sdr list
> 
> user at localhost:~$ ipmitool -I lanplus -H <BMC IP address>  -U admin -P
> password sensor list

... the ipmitool commands work just fine without it.

Is the first part above purely for getting the IP address of the
BMC from the local machine?

Gordan