atom feed43 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-stableBoot prompt for Intel AMT
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Subject:Boot prompt for Intel AMT
From:Charles Sprickman (spo@bway.net)
Date:Mar 6, 2007 3:14:46 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-stable

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:15:04AM +0300, Artem Kuchin wrote:

The othe question, is there such technology for Supermicro mainboards?

Yes, Supermicro makes IPMI add-on cards (they require IPMI capability on the mainboard, however).

Be warned about these cards, however. A friend of mine at Yahoo! has encountered a major BIOS/IPMI oversight, where in the case that the IPMI event log becomes full, the system BIOS upon boot will _require_ someone hit F1 to continue on the console, until the IPMI history is cleared. Ultimately this requires someone to go to the datacenter and manually hit F1 on the console, clear the IPMI log, and let the machine boot up. Wonderful oversight.

I might also add that we tried that on a few Supermicro boxes and found the whole mess to be not as reliable as you'd like an OOB management tool to be. The java client is spotty at best, really wants to be run in Windows, and basically falls apart when doing simple console redirection in the client. Never really saw it work well.

Now it seems more and more problems are coming to light with vendor IPMI implementations (Broadcom's pseudo-iLO causes ARP storms because there is no dedicated NIC for iLO and the NIC technically has two MAC addresses, Supermicro's IPMI and the event log problem, yadda yadda.)

Yeah, I was a little disappointed in this - when I read about IPMI I thought that it was something of a standard and that I'd be able to pick and choose clients that run natively on FreeBSD or OS-X. That does not seem to be the case at all.

Seems to me the only vendors who got this right were 1) HP/Compaq with their true iLO/iLO2, and 2) Sun.

Which is a shame as the Supermicro cards were sub-$100...

Charles

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