Elaborate upon ipmi.bmcport behavior for a number of IBM system x systems

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Jarrod Johnson 2014-06-10 14:06:27 -04:00
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@ -393,7 +393,46 @@ ipmi => {
descriptions => {
node => 'The node name or group name.',
bmc => 'The hostname of the BMC adapater.',
bmcport => 'In systems with selectable shared/dedicated ethernet ports, this parameter can be used to specify the preferred port. 0 means use the shared port, 1 means dedicated, blank is to not assign',
bmcport => ' In systems with selectable shared/dedicated ethernet ports,
this parameter can be used to specify the preferred port. 0
means use the shared port, 1 means dedicated, blank is to not
assign.
The following special cases exist for IBM System x servers:
For x3755 M3 systems, 0 means use the dedicated port, 1 means
shared, blank is to not assign.
For certain systems which have a mezzaine or ML2 adapter, there is a second
value to include:
For x3750 M4 (Model 8722):
0 2 1st 1Gbps interface for LOM
0 0 1st 10Gbps interface for LOM
0 3 2nd 1Gbps interface for LOM
0 1 2nd 10Gbps interface for LOM
For x3750 M4 (Model 8752), x3850/3950 X6, dx360 M4, x3550 M4, and x3650 M4:
0 Shared (1st onboard interface)
1 Dedicated
2 0 First interface on ML2 or mezzanine adapter
2 1 Second interface on ML2 or mezzanine adapter
2 2 Third interface on ML2 or mezzanine adapter
2 3 Fourth interface on ML2 or mezzanine adapter',
taggedvlan => 'Have bmcsetup place the BMC on the specified vlan tag on a shared netwirk interface. Some network devices may be incompatible with this option',
bmcid => 'Unique identified data used by discovery processes to distinguish known BMCs from unrecognized BMCs',
username => 'The BMC userid. If not specified, the key=ipmi row in the passwd table is used as the default.',