>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Page <jim.DeleteThis@emf-systems.com> writes:
Jim> "IronChicken" <jim.DeleteThis@emf-systems.com> wrote in message
Jim> news:2c1530f6.0402061804.37ae64d1@posting.google.com...
>> keith poirier <keith.poirier.DeleteThis@hp.com> wrote in message
Jim> news:<pan.2004.01.28.16.19.29.372889.DeleteThis@hp.com>...
>> > anyone out there use the IPMI card (SMDC) with the Tyan 2882 with
>> > opteron processors?
>> >
>> > Details on how you access it?
>>
>> 10. this is where I'm at - a login page - but what are you supposed to
>> put in there??? I can find no reference to the SMDC's default password
>> setting, or how to change it without successfully logging in.
Jim> Ok I have got a bit further. Grasping at straws I set up the MAC address
Jim> field in the SMDC, and the TSO software finally logged me in. However my
Jim> eagerness was short lived; console redirection doesn't work, or for that
Jim> matter any of the power functions, despite the management software returning
Jim> a 'command successful' status on the status bar. I'm beginning to suspect
Jim> SMDC firmware; there is an empty '2880' directory in the firmware dir on
Jim> their ftp server
Have they even written it yet?? The motherboard BIOS
Jim> must be ok; I am using 1.01 which in the release notes includes 'SMDC
Jim> support', and the BIOS utility allows me to select SMDC in 'remote access';
Jim> and the SMDC uses the lan port ok. Incidentally, the 'read-only' options (ie
Jim> data read from the SMDC card) seems to work fine.
Jim> I will fire off another mail to tyan.
Jim> Jim
Any further developments on this? I just got a 2882 with an SMDC card in
today. I got a little farther than Jim with BIOS 1.02 and SMDC
firmware version 1.69. Specifically, I was actually able to
power-cycle the box, but when it came back up, I didn't see anything
in the txconsole (I'm using the linux/X11 console software). A VGA
console attached to the machine itself shows that the machine
power-cycled and came up to the main BIOS menu, but I get nothing in
the Out-of-Band 'Console Redirection' tab. Also, the manual (m_3289_102R.pdf
on the CD) indicates that there should be 'Sensor Reading Panel' and 'System
Event Panel' tabs in the Out-of-band window, but I see neither of them.
At a higher level -- is there any chance of using something other than
Tyan's software to talk to the out-of-band BMC? Just where does "standards
compliant" end and "proprietary protocols" start? I am particularly concerned
that all the pictures in the manual show a 'Manager' sitting on a LAN right
next to the 'Agent'. A picture with a 'Manager' sitting across the internet
from the 'Agent' is conspicuously absent. Is there something that makes
such a picture impractical (security concerns, perhaps, or something funky
about routing the impi traffic)?
At an even higher level, is there anyone else out there who has been
bold enough to use these SMDC cards in a remote deployment. I really
don't want to be the first (or even the hundredth) customer to rely on
these daughter cards for management of remote servers, i.e., servers
in data centers on the other side of the country, not just on the
other side of the building in a machine room.
Thanks,
John Salmon<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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