IPMI errors in syslog

[Mark Everett]

Greetings,

Thousands of errors from IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) have recently been directed to syslog.log.

The ia64 system is an rx2600 with HP-UX v11.22.

Any ideas on why this is occuring or how to begin diagnosing the cause?

Thanks in advance,

-Mark

Mar 20 08:23:32 monty vmunix: Line 712 in /ux/core/kern/em/plat/ipmi/ipmi_psm.c: ipmi_put_chassis() : Failed to send Reset WD Timer 0x
E0070006
Mar 20 08:27:49 monty vmunix: Line 1022 in /ux/core/kern/em/plat/ipmi/ipmi_psm.c: ipmi_log_chassis() : Failed to send hex f12f log due
to: 0xE0070006

[S.K. Chan · Accepted solution]

I took a quick look into patches and found one that may be of help to you ..
PHKL_28407 (s700_800 11.22 IPMI Watchdog Timer Parameter Tuning) and somewhere in the description it says .. quote .."When the system is under very high stress, a message may appear in /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log indicating that the system failed to send the IPMI Reset Watchdog Timer."
You may want to take a look ..

[Steven E. Protter]

Always a good idea to be fully patched.

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=QUALITYPACK

Here is a longshot doc/thread containing similar error text.

Might be worth a read.

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/patchDocDisplay.do?patchId=PHKL_27669

SEP

[Steven E. Protter]

Another long shot.

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/patchDocDisplay.do?patchId=PHKL_24814

SEP

[Mark Everett]

Thanks to S.K. Chan and SEP for the useful responses. I was negligent in not first searching the patch database for hits on IPMI.

The PHKL_28407 _appears_ to be an exact solution, and I intend to apply this. Unfortunately, HP's ITRC site is not responding at the moment due to either an outage or maintenance.

Btw, under different circumstances, I would eagerly apply the latest QPK. However, we are in a software development and testing environment. So, it is my objective to provide a stable and consistant environment, only applying updates after they have been identified and approved.

THANKS!

-Mark

[Mark Everett]

Well, the expected solution via PHKL_28407 did not pan out. The attempted patch application failed because of failed the base fileset to be patched was thought by swinstall not to exist.

However, according to swlist output, the fileset _does_ exist. Should (can?) I force the application?

-Mark

Error from swinstall:
NOTE: The patch fileset "PHKL_28407.CORE2-KRN,r=1.0" may only be
installed upon a previously installed base fileset. The
specification for this base fileset is
"OS-Core.CORE2-KRN,fr=B.11.22,v=HP". Since there is no
fileset on the target or selected from the source which
matches this specification, fileset
"PHKL_28407.CORE2-KRN,r=1.0" will be excluded.

Yet:
monty[136]$ swlist -l fileset | grep 'OS-Core.CORE' | grep KRN
OS-Core.CORE-KRN B.11.22.%45 Core HP-UX kernel functionality
OS-Core.CORE2-KRN B.11.22.%45 Core HP-UX kernel generation files

[Mark Everett]

I started a new thread on this since the problem has evolved into a swinstall patch failure issue.

New subject: 'Unable to install PHKL_28407 to resolve IPMI errors'

Thanks,

-Mark

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x4750b82b2d63d71190080090279cd0f9,00.html