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Message #01392
Re: BMC detection
On 11/11/13 10:52, Julian Edwards wrote:
>> 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.
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> Ah I remember your document now. The idea of having a detection daemon
> running all the time is quite appealing; we could have a periodic celery
> job that polls it and reconcile output with our current set of known
> BMCs (like we do for DHCP leases).
Ok so it works fine for me with the HP microservers.
ubuntu@maas:~$ ipmidetect -d -s
10.0.0.101 10.0.0.102
> Sadly I can't (yet, at least) see a way to reconcile discovered BMCs
> with nodes' MACs.
We need to talk about this - unless we can match BMCs to hardware before
we enlist nodes, it makes this detection less useful than it could be.
The closest thing I can see is the "fru" command which lists "Field
Replaceable Units" but on the microservers you don't get a lot of info:
ipmitool> fru print
FRU Device Description : Builtin FRU Device (ID 0)
Product Manufacturer : HP
Product Name : MicroServer Remote Card
Product Serial : 000000000000000
I'll try in the lab later (I can't get in right now).
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