Koef suggested that upgrading the BIOS might help - but would Sun ship a broken service processor in a computer which is intended to be monitored with N1 management services via the IPMP interface ? (that was a retorical question :-) The only other suggestion was the syntax for querying an already configured interface. I should have made it clearer that the card is not yet configured. Thanks, Orginal question... On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:41:01AM +0100, zzassgl@zoe.mcc.ac.uk wrote: > I'm trying to use the ipmitool program to configure the management interface > of a X2100 from Solaris 10 > > SunOS martin 5.10 Generic_Patch_118844-30 i86pc i386 i86pc > > ie > > # ./ipmitool -I bmc chassis status > Could not open bmc device: No such file or directory > Error sending Chassis Status command > > I've seen some suggestions that the device might need creating... > > # devfsadm -v -i bmc > devfsadm: driver failed to attach: bmc > exit status = 1 > > Having a look at the device... > > # ls -las /dev/bmc > 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Sep 19 2005 /dev/bmc -> > ../devices/pseudo/bmc@0:bmc > # ls -las /devices/pseudo/bmc@0:bmc > /devices/pseudo/bmc@0:bmc: No such file or directory > > It looks like there is no device for the management interface card. > > Has anybody resolved a similar problem? > -- | Geoff. Lane | ITs | Manchester | M13 9PL | England | _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Jun 21 03:38:54 2006
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