Intel MPCBL0001 manual Installation and Configuration, SOL Client ipmitool

Serial Over Lan (SOL)

11.6Installation and Configuration

11.6.1SOL Configuration Reference Script (reference_cfg)

The reference script can run with no special setup. The script uses built-in bash commands as well as grep and awk. The environment in which the script runs must have bash installed at /bin/bash (or a symbolic link at that location), and must include grep and awk in the path.

The reference script is implemented as two separate bash files: reference_cfg, which contains the necessary IPMI commands, and reference_func, a library of supporting functions. The scripts need to be extracted from the included tar archive file “reference_cfg-1.3.0.2.tar” and copied/moved to appropriate directories. The recommended locations for these files are as follows:

/usr/lib/sbcutils/reference_funcs

/usr/bin/reference_cfg

The reference_cfg file looks in three specific places for the reference_func file:

•the current working directory

•/usr/lib/sbcutils

•/home/scripts

If reference_cfg cannot find the reference_func file in any of these locations, it terminates with an error message. The reference_cfg file may actually be located in any directory that is in the user's execution path.

When running the reference script on a remote node over RMCP via a shelf manager, RMCP to IPMB bridging must be enabled on the shelf manager. If using the Intel NetStructure® MPCMM0001 Chassis Management Module Shelf Manager, then the cmdPrivillige.ini file included in the tar archive needs to be installed in the /etc directory of the Shelf Manager. This is needed to ensure that the RMCP Server on the Shelf Manager will correctly forward the configuration commands to the blade.

Note: When executing the reference_cfg script to configure the MPCBL0001 blade, you must specify the “-g” option on the command line. This enables Gratuitous ARPs from the blade. Not specifying this switch will result in the script exiting with an error. If it is not desirable to have the blade emit Gratuitous ARPs, then a seperate command will need to be issued to disable them.

RMCP and KCS communication requires the OpenIPMI application library, version 1.4 or later. KCS communication further requires the OpenIPMI driver.

11.6.2SOL Client (ipmitool)

Use this command:

ipmitool -I lanplus -L operator -H <HostIP> -U <UserName> -P <Password> sol activate

Where:

Intel NetStructure® MPCBL0001 Technical Product Specification 157