Error connecting to BMC

[Gary Mackenzie]

Hey Ryan,

So my only experience here is with AMT on the Intel NUCs but I assume
implementation is identical across AMT enabled boards. AMT has a management
IP address which is set in the Intel MEBx / AMT setup screen (ctrl+p on
boot usually).

This is *completely* independent of how the OS deployed on the unit
acquires an IP address, I believe there are ways to configure the AMT + OS
to share an IP but I'd avoid that unless you absolutely have to. My advice
as a starting point would be to configure the address for AMT statically
and then exclude that range from allocation by MaaS. Then set that static
IP as the power address in MaaS and you should be good to go. It may also
help to set the Power Control > Idle Timeout value to 65535 we've found
previously.

This is tested on BIOS versions 0027 and 0035 so I can say with some
certainty they work, I'm unsure about others.

Cheers

Gary

On 6 April 2017 at 21:27, Ryan <troll1602 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am having some trouble with power management with nodes via Intel AMT.
> The specific error I am receiving is on the Nodes page for a manually added
> node, in the Power section:
>
> Could not connect to BMC. Check BMC configuration and try again.
>
> I'm guessing this error is more a result of my lack of understanding for
> how BMC (specifically Intel AMT) is interacting with DHCP. Are there
> resources online to learn more about this?
>
> For example if I set the Power Address for a node (from BIOS menu) to
> 192.168.10.10 I assuming that I also need to statically assign the same IP
> Address for this node. But does then mean I need to manually add each node
> to MAAS, instead of letting MAAS enlist nodes automatically on that subnet?
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> MAAS Version 2.1.5+bzr5596-0ubuntu1 (16.04.1)
>
> -Ryan M.
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