IPMI timeouts for Dell R630 machines?

[Sandor Zeestraten]

Hey Mark and Jim,

Enabling IPMI over LAN (and anything else iDRAC related) is pretty
straightforward if you use racadm. Check out the link below.

http://www.dell.com/support/manuals/no/no/nobsdt1/dell-idrac-service-module-2.0/idrac8_ug_pub-v1/Configuring-IPMI-Over-LAN-Using-RACADM?guid=GUID-B5132B9F-5DF3-400C-AE33-FA5DA7D66B6A&lang=en-us

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Sandor Zeestraten

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Mark Wenning <mark.wenning at canonical.com>
wrote:

> Hey Jim,
> Cool.   I do not know any way to automagically enable IPMI over LAN, I do
> it by hand when I set up a new machine.   There may be a way to do it with
> Dell OMSA.
>
> Mark Wenning
> Technical Partner Manager, Cloud Alliances
> Canonical, Ltd
> mark.wenning at canonical.com
> -----
> “Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a
> violent psychopath who knows where you live”  -- John Woods
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Jim Tilander <jim at tilander.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> The "IPMI over LAN" was not checked, you were correct. Thanks for
>> pointing this out to me! After adding this, everything worked like a charm.
>> Is there a way to auto enable this setting, or do we have to go into each
>> machine and check this checkbox?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jim
>>
>> On Feb 13, 2017, at 8:06 AM, Mark Wenning <mark.wenning at canonical.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> R630 is definitely a supported server.
>> Look like it autodetected OK, if you have those settings in the GUI.
>> One quick thing you might want to check is in the iDRAC -> Network
>> Settings, scroll near the bottom and make sure that "IPMI Over LAN" is
>> enabled.
>> When you tell it to commission, do you see the R630 power on?   You
>> should also be able to click  "Check Power" at the top of the GUI page and
>> see it change to green Power On after a few seconds.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Mark Wenning
>> Technical Partner Manager, Cloud Alliances
>> Canonical, Ltd
>> mark.wenning at canonical.com
>> -----
>> “Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a
>> violent psychopath who knows where you live”  -- John Woods
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Jim Tilander <jim at tilander.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> I’ve got a Dell R630 server (brand new) that I’m trying to commission. I
>>> managed to get the server up and PXE booting so that it got discovered. So
>>> I’m trying to change the state from “New” -> “Commissioned”, at which it
>>> fails to contact the BMC for power status.
>>>
>>> I noticed that the initial discovery correctly seems to have made a new
>>> account “maas” in iDRAC and detected the correct IP address.
>>>
>>> The auto detected settings are:
>>>
>>> IPMI
>>> LAN_2_0 [IPMI 2.0]
>>> <correct ip>
>>> maas
>>> ********
>>>
>>>
>>> I’ve also verified that the account looks good in iDRAC.
>>>
>>>
>>> Both /var/log/maas/maas.log and /var/log/maas/regiond.log seems to not
>>> contain any useful messages related to IPMI. Am I looking in the right
>>> locations? Any ideas what might be not working? I figured that the R630 are
>>> “supported” servers?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jim
>>>
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