<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>Message: 6<br>Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 12:18:02 -0500<br>From: Rahul Nabar <<a href="mailto:rpnabar@gmail.com">rpnabar@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Beowulf] recommendation on crash cart for a cluster<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>room: full <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>cluster KVM is not an option I suppose?<br>To: Skylar Thompson <<a href="mailto:skylar@cs.earlham.edu">skylar@cs.earlham.edu</a>><br>Cc: Beowulf Mailing List <<a href="mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org">beowulf@beowulf.org</a>><br>Message-ID:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><<a href="mailto:c4d69730910031018w4e42440ek636d09bd745c4b26@mail.gmail.com">c4d69730910031018w4e42440ek636d09bd745c4b26@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br><br>On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Skylar Thompson <<a href="mailto:skylar@cs.earlham.edu">skylar@cs.earlham.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Rahul Nabar wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Skylar Thompson <<a href="mailto:skylar@cs.earlham.edu">skylar@cs.earlham.edu</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">That's what we use. You'd do something like "ipmitool -a -H hostname -U<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">username -I lanplus sol activate" will do the trick.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>Thanks Skylar. I just found I have bigger problems. I thought I was<br>done since ipmitool did a happy make; make install.<br><br>But nope:<br><br>./src/ipmitool -I open chassis status<br>Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0:<br>No such file or directory<br>Error sending Chassis Status command<br><br><br>I don't think I have the impi devices visible. From googling this<br>seems a bigger project needing insertion of some kernel modules. There<br>goes my weekend! :)<br><br>-- <br>Rahul<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Rahul,</div><div><br></div><div>Loading the modules is usually as easy as: </div><div>/etc/init.d/ipmi start</div><div><br></div><div>HTH,</div><div>Greg</div><div><br></div></body></html>