[xcat-user] 22 good AMM's

John Griffin-Wiesner johngw at msi.umn.edu
Fri Dec 12 08:08:54 MST 2008


Snmp was not enabled. I'd run the same rspconfig and gotten good
output from all my AMM's. Don't know what happened with this one.
It's good now.

Thanks


On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 09:58:00AM -0500, Jarrod B Johnson wrote:
> 
> Two possibilities:
> -SNMPv3 permissions on the AMM not set up right.  rspconfig <amm>
> snmpcfg=enable may rectify that
> -You're AMM firmware is one that was afflicted by a bug.  See:
> https://www-304.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-5076204&brandind=5000020
> "Fixed an issue where a user may not be able to access the Advanced
> Management Module via SNMP authPrivacy using their privacy password. "
> This happened a couple of other places with large numbers of BladeCenters,
> and one or two inexplicably refused to work.
> 
> 
>                                                                        
>   From:       John Griffin-Wiesner <johngw at msi.umn.edu>                
>                                                                        
>   To:         xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user at lists.xcat.org>       
>                                                                        
>   Date:       12/11/2008 05:04 PM                                      
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>   Subject:    [xcat-user] 22 good AMM's                                
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I have 22 Bladecenter AMM's working well with my new xCAT 2.1
> server.  There's one however to which I can connect via the
> browser, telnet and ssh.  But the r_____ commands fail. The
> blades I have in the troubled bc are blade043-blade056.
> 
> 
> [root at bcx bin]# rpower blade042-blade043 stat
> blade042: on
> blade043: Error: Cannot communicate with bc04
> 
> [root at bcx bin]# ssh USERID at bc04
> Warning: Permanently added 'bc04,172.30.104.5' (RSA) to the list
> of known hosts.
> 
> Hostname:              bc4
> Static IP address:     172.30.104.5
> Burned-in MAC address: 00:14:5E:E0:48:C2
> DHCP:                  Disabled - Use static IP configuration.
> Last login: Thursday December 11 2008 15:04 from 172.30.0.2 (SSH)
> 
> system> exit
> Connection to bc04 closed.
> 
> I've reset/reseated this amm. I haven't reset it to factory
> defaults. Any ideas what might be the deal?
> 
> My old xCAT 1 server can successfully run the r-commands for
> this same bc. So I wonder about my xcat tables. But I can't find
> anything about bc04 that's different than the config for the
> working bc's.
> 
> tabdump nodehm:
> #node,power,mgt,cons,termserver,termport,conserver,serialport,serialspeed,serialflow,getmac,comments,disable
> 
> "mm",,"blade",,,,,,,,,,
> "compute",,"blade","blade",,,,"1","19200","hard",,,
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> 
> 
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> John Griffin-Wiesner
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> Univ. MN Supercomputing Institute
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