Error connecting to BMC

[Junaid Ali]

Hi Ryan,

Though I haven't used Intel AMT, I did face the same error on HP
ProLiant machines. Upgrading ILO firmware to latest worked for me.


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Junaid

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 6:00 PM, Gary Mackenzie <
gary.mackenzie at canonical.com> wrote:

> 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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