Mirfster
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Been seeing some messages on the Dell C2100/FS12-TY servers regarding the IPMI adapter. These systems have a dedicated IPMI/BMC which works fine on its own.
IPMI Adapter is set to use the dedicated NIC (100 mbs)
Messages still appear if I chose to set it as a "Shared NIC"
So in FreeNas Console, I noticed that there are messages appearing:
Running command: dmesg -a | grep -i ipmi
Results in:
Reading up on the IPMI section of the manual (http://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_network.html#ipmi); I fail to really see any value to actually using this in the FreeNas GUI. After all, it appears to basically be asking me to enter the IPMI Password and nothing else. From there I would have to browse to the BMC/IPMI IP anyways to connect, which I could already do before.
So I guess I have two questions:
IPMI Adapter is set to use the dedicated NIC (100 mbs)
Messages still appear if I chose to set it as a "Shared NIC"
So in FreeNas Console, I noticed that there are messages appearing:
ipmi0: KCS: Read failed on byte 2
ipmi0: KCS error: ff
Running command: dmesg -a | grep -i ipmi
Results in:
dmesg -a | grep -i ipmi
ipmi0: <IPMI System Interface> on acpi0
ipmi0: unknown resource type
device_attach: ipmi0 attach returned 6
ipmi0: <IPMI System Interface> on isa0
ipmi0: KCS mode found at io 0xca2 alignment 0x1 on isa
ipmi0: IPMI device rev. 1, firmware rev. 1.70, version 2.0
ipmi0: Number of channels 2
ipmi0: Attached watchdog
ipmi0: KCS: Read failed on byte 2
ipmi0: KCS error: ff
ipmi0: KCS: Read failed on byte 2
ipmi0: KCS error: ff
Reading up on the IPMI section of the manual (http://doc.freenas.org/9.3/freenas_network.html#ipmi); I fail to really see any value to actually using this in the FreeNas GUI. After all, it appears to basically be asking me to enter the IPMI Password and nothing else. From there I would have to browse to the BMC/IPMI IP anyways to connect, which I could already do before.
So I guess I have two questions:
- Am I missing something about IPMI in FreeNas that would be of better benefit than just using if natively?
- Is there any downside to disabling IPMI?
- Not sure if FreeNas is using this to gather system info/logging/monitoring