Newbie: IPMI on HP Microserver Gen8

[Aleksandr Semenov]

Hi,
Just installed FreeNas without any problems on brand new HP Microserver Gen8 (1610T).
All looks fine except ipmi complains.

Here is dmesg -a |grep -i ipmi
It spams about one time in a hour or two. What's wrong? I think same hardware must be very popular, it's cheap and... well, it's real server. Anyone has ipmi working without complains?
If it's impossible, how can I disable ipmi, and what I will lose in that case? My ILO works good, I installed OS via it.


ipmi0: <IPMI System Interface> port 0xca2-0xca3 on acpi0
ipmi0: KCS mode found at io 0xca2 on acpi
ipmi0: KCS error: ff
ipmi0: IPMI device rev. 2, firmware rev. 2.30, version 2.0
ipmi0: Number of channels 1
ipmi0: Attached watchdog
ipmi0: KCS: Reply address mismatch
ipmi0: KCS error: ff
ipmi0: KCS: Reply address mismatch
ipmi0: KCS error: ff
ipmi0: KCS: Reply address mismatch
ipmi0: KCS error: ff
ipmi0: Failed to reset watchdog
ipmi0: KCS: Reply address mismatch
ipmi0: KCS error: ff
ipmi0: KCS: Reply address mismatch
ipmi0: KCS error: ff
ipmi0: KCS: Reply address mismatch
ipmi0: KCS error: ff
ipmi0: KCS: Reply address mismatch
ipmi0: KCS error: ff
ipmi0: KCS: Reply address mismatch
ipmi0: KCS error: ff
ipmi0: KCS: Reply address mismatch
ipmi0: KCS error: ff
ipmi0: KCS: Reply address mismatch
ipmi0: KCS error: ff
ipmi0: KCS: Reply address mismatch
ipmi0: KCS error: ff
ipmi0: KCS: Reply address mismatch
ipmi0: KCS error: ff
ipmi0: Failed to reset watchdog

 

[dlavigne]

Build version (from System -> Information)?

There are some tips in this report: https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/5429.

 

[Aleksandr Semenov]

Ops, sorry - FreeNAS-9.10-STABLE-201604140622 (8781269)
Reboot doesn't help.
I don't know how unload/reload ipmi driver, cos I'm completly newbie in freebsd and haven't much expirience in *nixes, so can't find any helpful information in that report. It looks very old, so I can conclude bug won't be fixed.
So, how to disable ipmi completly?

 

[dlavigne]

Does typing ipmitool bmc reset help?

 

[Aleksandr Semenov]

Just tried warm reset, got "ipmi0: KCS: Failed to start write" in dmesg. After that tried cold reset, got another "ipmi0: KCS: Failed to start write". And looks like no "bmc" parameter in ipmitool, it does "mc", not sure it's the same.

[root@freenas] ~# ipmitool bmc reset
Not enough parameters given.
usage: mc reset <warm|cold>
[root@freenas] ~# ipmitool bmc reset warm
Sent warm reset command to MC

 

[jamaica]

I'm having the same problem with my HP Microserver Gen8. Currently its running 'FreeNAS-9.10-STABLE-201604181743', but the problem exists since I installed FreeNAS 9.3 for the first time (2 or 3 months ago). I already did multiple bmc resets (cold and warm) but the problem still exists. I ignored the problem in the past, by unloading the ipmi module ('kldunload ipmi'). But I think this should not be the solution.
Does someone have some tipps what we can do about this problem (just tell me if you need more informations, e.g. command outputs)?

Update:
May it be possible, that it related to this message about disabled watchdog?

Code:

ipmi0: detached
ipmi0: <IPMI System Interface> port 0xca2-0xca3 on acpi0
ipmi0: KCS mode found at io 0xca2 on acpi
ipmi0: IPMI device rev. 2, firmware rev. 2.30, version 2.0
ipmi0: Number of channels 1
ipmi0: Attached watchdog
ichwd0: <Intel Cougar Point watchdog timer> at port 0x930-0x937,0x960-0x97f on isa0
ichwd0: ICH WDT present but disabled in BIOS or hardware
device_attach: ichwd0 attach returned 6

 

[fcueto]

Same issue here...

 

[Ericloewe]

Same issue here...

What's your issue? A torrent of IPMI errors?

 

[fcueto]

yes a bunch of IPMI error but it's not "permanent"/
For example on september 21st, I have had several ipmi error in the log file in a 2 sec interval.....
no more error since... But I know it will reappear in a near future.

Code:

Sep 21 10:04:59 freenas alert.py: [freenasOS.Configuration:638] Unable to load ['https://web.ixsystems.com/updates/ix_crl.pem']: Host web.ixsystems.com returned an invalid certificate ([SSL] internal error (_ssl.c:590))
Sep 21 10:46:50 freenas ipmi0: KCS: Reply address mismatch
Sep 21 10:46:50 freenas ipmi0: KCS error: ff
Sep 21 10:46:50 freenas ipmi0: KCS: Reply address mismatch
Sep 21 10:46:50 freenas ipmi0: KCS error: ff
Sep 21 10:46:50 freenas ipmi0: KCS: Reply address mismatch
Sep 21 10:46:50 freenas ipmi0: KCS error: ff
Sep 21 10:46:50 freenas ipmi0: Failed to reset watchdog
Sep 21 10:46:50 freenas ipmi0: KCS: Reply address mismatch
Sep 21 10:46:50 freenas ipmi0: KCS error: ff
Sep 21 10:46:50 freenas ipmi0: KCS: Reply address mismatch
Sep 21 10:46:50 freenas ipmi0: KCS error: ff
Sep 21 10:46:50 freenas ipmi0: KCS: Reply address mismatch
Sep 21 10:46:50 freenas ipmi0: KCS error: ff
Sep 21 10:46:50 freenas ipmi0: Failed to set watchdog
Sep 21 10:46:51 freenas ipmi0: KCS: Reply address mismatch
Sep 21 10:46:51 freenas ipmi0: KCS error: ff
Sep 21 10:46:51 freenas ipmi0: KCS: Reply address mismatch
Sep 21 10:46:51 freenas ipmi0: KCS error: ff
Sep 21 11:05:12 freenas alert.py: [freenasOS.Configuration:624] Unable to load https://web.ixsystems.com/updates/ix_crl.pem: Host web.ixsystems.com returned an invalid certificate ([SSL] internal error (_ssl.c:590))