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So my IPMI is DEAD. The BMC apparently isn't working correctly. All things were working fine last night and I shut down the machine, turned off the power to the machine, this morning powered it up and no IPMI. The BMC doesn't know the firmware version and status is NOT WORKING. This doesn't sound like a good situation. I'll start to comb through the manual to see if I can reset the thing.
EDIT: The heartbeat LED is lit solid, no flashing.
EDIT2: I had updated my BIOS and BMC firmware when I got the machine. It's possible the BMC firmware just crapped out on me. I have submitted a trouble ticket with Supermicro to see if I can manually upgrade the BMC firmware, not sure it will work since the Heart Beat indicator is lit. The DOS instructions with the firmware SMT_X11_113 are for an older version of the flash program so I'm not sure how to use the program properly so I'm waiting on Tech Support to both point me to the correct BMC firmware file and the instructions on how to use it. Hopefully they will get back to me this morning. I'm sure I can figure it out myself but if they have a newer firmware file, well I want that.
EDIT: The heartbeat LED is lit solid, no flashing.
EDIT2: I had updated my BIOS and BMC firmware when I got the machine. It's possible the BMC firmware just crapped out on me. I have submitted a trouble ticket with Supermicro to see if I can manually upgrade the BMC firmware, not sure it will work since the Heart Beat indicator is lit. The DOS instructions with the firmware SMT_X11_113 are for an older version of the flash program so I'm not sure how to use the program properly so I'm waiting on Tech Support to both point me to the correct BMC firmware file and the instructions on how to use it. Hopefully they will get back to me this morning. I'm sure I can figure it out myself but if they have a newer firmware file, well I want that.
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