Minsky server has some differences when you compare with a regular one. By large the most time consuming one (if you do not know it) is the BMC port and how to connect to it.
Here is the explanation.
Interfaces in Minsky
IBM Minsky server
(model 8335-GTB) has 3 NICs (Ethernet interfaces), however it only
has two physical ports.
Watching the back of
the server you will find both Ports (Port0 and Port1)
Port 1 is a common
port that can be configured as a regular NIC in the OS.
Port 0 is a physical
port that has two internal NICs, it shows 2 different MAC addresses
to the network.
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The first MAC address is from a NIC that can be used in the OS as another regular eth adapters.
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The second MAC is from the BMC interface. It is configured as DHCP by default.
Implementing the connection
You can use whatever
solution you prefer to connect, just checking the interface (see the
first commands of our solution) for the acquired IP address but as
we do not have DHCP server we will configure a static IP address in
the same range as the NIC1, forgetting about the NIC0 interface.
From Ubuntu CLI
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Install the necessary packages in the host OS.
root@minsky:/etc/network#
apt install ipmitool
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Then we have to install the ipmi driver
root@minsky:/etc/network#
modprobe ipmi_devintf
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Now we will check the actual configuration
root@minsky:/etc/network# ipmitool lan print 1
Set in Progress : Set Complete
Auth Type Support : MD5
Auth Type Enable : Callback : MD5
: User : MD5
: Operator : MD5
: Admin : MD5
: OEM : MD5
IP Address Source : DHCP Address
IP Address : 0.0.0.0
Subnet Mask : 0.0.0.0
MAC Address : 70:e2:84:14:25:fd
SNMP Community String : AMI
IP Header : TTL=0x40 Flags=0x40 Precedence=0x00 TOS=0x10
BMC ARP Control : ARP Responses Enabled, Gratuitous ARP Disabled
Gratituous ARP Intrvl : 0.0 seconds
Default Gateway IP : 0.0.0.0
Default Gateway MAC : 00:00:00:00:00:00
Backup Gateway IP : 0.0.0.0
Backup Gateway MAC : 00:00:00:00:00:00
802.1q VLAN ID : Disabled
802.1q VLAN Priority : 0
RMCP+ Cipher Suites : 0,1,2,3,6,7,8,11,12,15,16,17
Cipher Suite Priv Max : caaaaaaaaaaaXXX
: X=Cipher Suite Unused
: c=CALLBACK
: u=USER
: o=OPERATOR
: a=ADMIN
: O=OEM
Bad Password Threshold : 0
Invalid password disable: no
Attempt Count Reset Int.: 0
User Lockout Interval : 0
root@minsky:/etc/network#
- Check the current IP address configuration
root@minsky:/etc/network# ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enP9p7s0f0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 70:e2:84:14:25:fe brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet6 fe80::72e2:84ff:fe14:25fe/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: enP9p7s0f1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 70:e2:84:14:25:ff brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.250.45.2/24 brd 10.250.45.255 scope global enP9p7s0f1
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::72e2:84ff:fe14:25ff/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
- Configuration of the BMC interface with a static IP
root@minsky:/etc/network# ipmitool lan set 1 ipsrc static
root@minsky:/etc/network# ipmitool lan set 1 ipaddr 10.250.45.3
Setting LAN IP Address to 10.250.45.3
root@minsky:/etc/network# ipmitool lan set 1 netmask 255.255.255.0
Setting LAN Subnet Mask to 255.255.255.0
root@minsky:/etc/network# ipmitool lan set 1 defgw ipaddr 10.250.45.1
Setting LAN Default Gateway IP to 10.250.45.1
root@minsky:/etc/network# ipmitool lan set 1 arp respond on
Enabling BMC-generated ARP responses
root@minsky:/etc/network# ipmitool lan set 1 auth ADMIN MD5
root@minsky:/etc/network# ipmitool lan set 1 access on
Set Channel Access for channel 1 was successful.
root@minsky:/etc/network#
- Check the outcome
root@minsky:~# ipmitool lan print 1
Set in Progress : Set Complete
Auth Type Support : MD5
Auth Type Enable : Callback : MD5
: User : MD5
: Operator : MD5
: Admin : MD5
: OEM : MD5
IP Address Source : Static Address
IP Address : 10.250.45.3
Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0
MAC Address : 70:e2:84:14:25:fd
SNMP Community String : AMI
IP Header : TTL=0x40 Flags=0x40 Precedence=0x00 TOS=0x10
BMC ARP Control : ARP Responses Enabled, Gratuitous ARP Disabled
Gratituous ARP Intrvl : 0.0 seconds
Default Gateway IP : 10.250.45.1
Default Gateway MAC : 02:e0:52:8c:1f:01
Backup Gateway IP : 0.0.0.0
Backup Gateway MAC : 00:00:00:00:00:00
802.1q VLAN ID : Disabled
802.1q VLAN Priority : 0
RMCP+ Cipher Suites : 0,1,2,3,6,7,8,11,12,15,16,17
Cipher Suite Priv Max : caaaaaaaaaaaXXX
: X=Cipher Suite Unused
: c=CALLBACK
: u=USER
: o=OPERATOR
: a=ADMIN
: O=OEM
Bad Password Threshold : 0
Invalid password disable: no
Attempt Count Reset Int.: 0
User Lockout Interval : 0
- Now we can connect using a web browser
URL:
https://10.250.45.3/
Credentials:
username ADMIN password admin
You are in!!!
