From f5851bc826b6c780ceac3f5a5dfab2755cbbd91e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jarrod Johnson Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:06:27 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Elaborate upon ipmi.bmcport behavior for a number of IBM system x systems --- perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm index e06a8bb3a..42405c2be 100755 --- a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm +++ b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm @@ -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.',