IPMI device no longer found

[Ruff.Hi]

Just saw my last post to this thread was April 2015. Well, almost 2 yrs later and my system has just been rolling on. A 4TB recently threw a SMART error and is now winging its way back to WD ... I have my spare in the system covering for it.

Anyway ... my motherboard temp scripts recently started throwing this error ...

Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory

I traced that back to ipmitool not being happy. When I use ipmitool via shell, it reports ...

Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory

Hmm - some googling suggested the BMC and at that point I thought I would post here in case anyone had any suggestions.

BTW ... should I be able to remote into my NAS when the NAS is off (power on) via the ipmi dedicated GLAN?

 

[Ruff.Hi]

eeerrr ... thanks for moving the thread?

Anyway ... my BMC is dead. It failed initial test (according to bios). There are a bunch of other threads about the ASRock mbs dying after about 2 yrs and I got my Q1 of 2015 ... oh oh.

The watchdog is disabled in the bios ... and I am in the process of adding a tuneable (according to this post). I don't have any PWM fans off my motherboard so that was never an issue for me.

 

[Ruff.Hi]

RMA approved. This will mean that I will be without a NAS for about 20 days ... oh well.