[Beowulf] Any industry-standards that allow automated BIOS modifications and dumping? IPMI cannot do it, can it?

[Don Holmgren]

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Rahul Nabar wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Gregory wrote:
>> Rahul Nabar wrote:
>>>
>>> (1) Can't do a Serial-on-LAN (SOL); My Dell server needs a special
>>> card (read more money) for this function. That is unfortunate.
>>
>> are you sure? have you tried using lanplus instead of lan? (e.g. use
>> ipmitool -I lanplus) Never had this problem with our bog-standard dells.
>>
>>
> I get this error:
>
> ipmitool -H 10.0.0.26 -I lanplus -U root sol activate
> Password:
> Error loading interface lanplus
>
> Any clue what this might be? How can I get the lanplus interface
> loaded? Is this a driver issue or does this mean that my BMC does not
> have a lanplus interface at all.
>
> The LAN interface does work file but apparantly "sol activate" needs lanplus.
>
> ipmitool -H 10.0.0.26 -I lan -U root sol activate
> Error: This command is only available over the lanplus interface


It sounds like your ipmitool was built without lanplus support.  Try
    ipmitool -h
and it will list under "Interfaces:" all of the protocols that it will
support.  You may need to explicitly enable lanplus when you configure
the build.

Don Holmgren
Fermilab