[Maas-devel] BMC detection

[Gavin Panella]

On 8 November 2013 00:34, Julian Edwards <julian.edwards at canonical.com> wrote:
> I found another way and it's simpler, but does have a drawback:
>
> ubuntu at maas:~$ rmcp_ping
> 10-0-0-102.master IPMI
> 10-0-0-101.master IPMI
>
> It's printing hostnames instead of IPs, which is rather annoying.
>
> rcmp_ping is from the openipmi package and does broadcast pings by
> default.  It's a shame ipmiping doesn't do that, and seemingly can't be
> made to do it either:
>
> ubuntu at maas:~$ sudo ipmiping 255.255.255.255
> ipmiping 255.255.255.255 (255.255.255.255)
> ipmiping: ipmi_sendto: Permission denied
>

There's some prior work on this which I stumbled upon last night,
using ipmidetectd:

https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/1yn5Z30oFClVMJ8BFy9ZNoj2wXo371r1LzRGc8u9c_6o/edit
(Sorry to external readers, it's Canonical-only. It's a description of
using ipmidetectd in an internal lab, mixed in with some mildly
confidential bits.)

Have you used this before? I remember trying this out at home with the
HP MicroServers and getting nothing, but that might have been PEBKAC.