Dell IPMI power problems

Mike Pontillo mike.pontillo at canonical.com
Thu Jul 13 20:10:03 UTC 2017


On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Ernest Martinez <erniel29 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have 5 Dell 2950 PowerEdge servers only 1 of the servers has a DRAC, the
> rest just rely on BMC.
>
> I can successfully PXE boot the servers from the MaaS controller and when
> completed it powers down the node and I can see the nodes in the MaaS nodes
> page. When I page over to the node, I see that the IPMI setting are filled
> in except for the MAC address. However when I try to commission the node it
> fails with a power fault condition and I cannot power up the nodes with
> MaaS, however MaaS DOES detect if I power up the node manually. I've tried
> IPMI 1.5 and 2.0.
>
> I also tried to configure the power setting to "Manual" but on a
> subsequent boot, MaaS overwrites the power settings, and then it reverts to
> the previously described behavior.
>
> I got a somewhat different behavior with the Server WITH the DRAC module.
> In that case The IPMI settings were not set and I had to set them by hand,
> but once set, I was able to commission the node, but it would fail on
> deploy with a timeout. In this instance it seems like MaaS just wasn't
> waiting long enough for the server to go through its lengthy BIOS boot.
>
> I'm running the 16.04 distro.
>

The first thing I would check is if IPMI over LAN is enabled[1]. If that's
what the problem is, it's worth noting that in MAAS 2.3, we've landed code
that should automatically enable it when the node is enlisted, so that we
can avoid this issue[2].

Please let us know if that helps.

Regards,
Mike

[1]:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/625174/maas-power-on-problem-idrac-ipmi-2-0
[2]: https://code.launchpad.net/~andreserl/maas/+git/maas/+merge/327264
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