Regarding using ipmi thorugh iLO 3

[nehachatrath]

Hello,

I am using ProLiant DL360 G7 server in my project.

These servers are going to be differnet nodes in a cluster.

I need to do cluster management e.g fence a node if a node goes down using IPMI.

as per my understanding, iLO 3 firmware provides server management usingg IPMI

I have configured iLO firmware and have also connected it to public network.

Thus, I am able to access iLO through a browser.

Now I want to send some commands to ipmi interface using ipmitool.

When I execute a command e.g.

"ipmitool sel"

following error is observed

" Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory
Get SEL Info command failed "

Following is the output of lsmod command

[root@ggns2mexsatsdp20 ~]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
iptable_filter          2147  1
ip_tables               9541  1 iptable_filter
td                     26156  1
bluetooth              84905  0
rfkill                 15252  1 bluetooth
fuse                   56128  0
xt_CHECKSUM              921  0
bridge                 61127  0
autofs4                21604  3
sunrpc                197617  1
fcoe                   18389  0
libfcoe                14501  1 fcoe
libfc                  81433  2 fcoe,libfcoe
scsi_transport_fc      40098  2 fcoe,libfc
8021q                  19491  0
garp                    5901  1 8021q
stp                     1563  2 bridge,garp
scsi_tgt               10035  1 scsi_transport_fc
llc                     4392  3 bridge,garp,stp
pcc_cpufreq             4348  0
xt_physdev              1415  0
ipt_REJECT              1905  0
ip6t_REJECT             3961  2
nf_conntrack_ipv6      16198  2
xt_state                1006  2
nf_conntrack           66010  2 nf_conntrack_ipv6,xt_state
ip6table_filter         2219  1
ip6_tables             10809  1 ip6table_filter
ipv6                  264702  90 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
dm_mirror              11620  0
dm_region_hash         10127  1 dm_mirror
dm_log                  8520  2 dm_mirror,dm_region_hash
uinput                  6218  0
power_meter             7396  0
hwmon                   1872  1 power_meter
sg                     24778  0
serio_raw               3760  0
iTCO_wdt                9324  0
iTCO_vendor_support     2382  1 iTCO_wdt
hpilo                   6631  0
i7core_edac            14451  0
edac_core              36599  1 i7core_edac
bnx2                   66960  0
ext4                  322814  3
mbcache                 5918  1 ext4
jbd2                   73876  1 ext4
sr_mod                 14187  0
cdrom                  34035  1 sr_mod
sd_mod                 33344  5
crc_t10dif              1191  1 sd_mod
ata_generic             2555  0
pata_acpi               2487  0
ata_piix               19016  0
hpsa                   36873  4
radeon                745493  2
ttm                    37976  1 radeon
drm_kms_helper         29029  1 radeon
drm                   162327  4 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit            4600  1 radeon
i2c_core               25799  4 radeon,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
dm_mod                 63859  2 dm_mirror,dm_log

Do I need to insert any other driver so that I am able to use ipmitool? If yes, then which driver? Is it part of hp-health driver package?

Can somebody help me in this conifguration?

Thanks and regards

Neha Chatrath

[tpham2002]

you may need to start ipmi. 

To start it  as below

#service ipmi start

To check it as below, should show ipmi  on

#chkconfig

Pham