Troubleshooting an IPMI issue on a centos 6.5 server. Specifically, I am not able to set up IPMI web management due to errors when trying to work with IPMI LAN settings.
I get the following error when I type ipmitool lan print:
[root@]# ipmitool lan print
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory
Get Channel Info command failed
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory
Get Channel Info command failed
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory
Get Channel Info command failed
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory
Get Channel Info command failed
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory
Get Channel Info command failed
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory
Get Channel Info command failed
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory
Get Channel Info command failed
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory
Get Channel Info command failed
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory
Get Channel Info command failed
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory
Get Channel Info command failed
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory
Get Channel Info command failed
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory
Get Channel Info command failed
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory
Get Channel Info command failed
Invalid Channel 255
Almost all google/stackexchange answers to these problems result in the answer found here ipmitool – can't find /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmidev/0, however this supermicro server has the same exact ipmi kernel modules loaded as my other supermicro server as shown below:
[root@SERVER_WITHOUT_WORKING_IPMI]# modprobe --showconfig | grep ipmi
alias platform:ipmi_si ipmi_devintf
[root@SERVER_WITH_WORKING_IPMI]# modprobe --showconfig | grep ipmi
alias platform:ipmi_si ipmi_devintf
Therefore, I suspect this is not a problem related to kernel modules…
Any assistance on this is greatly appreciated. Note that this device is in production, so I have to be careful with "trying things out". Also note that I am relatively new to linux (network engineer here).
Thanks everyone…(this is my first post!)
Best Answer
Did the following:
...and this showed that the ipmi_devintf module was NOT loaded. Did modprobe and loaded this and it worked.
However, I still can't ping the ipmi interface even though I verified correct network config <-- this is a separate problem that I will need to look into.