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For IBM Power 822LC and 812LC, it seems there is something wrong with

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the firmware that causes the BMC to stop replying to ping a few seconds
after the changes are made.  To work around this issue, sleep 30 before
doing the cold reset.  Once the firmware is fixed, this reset is NOT
needed
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Victor Hu 2016-01-26 09:09:47 -05:00
parent 709a6cb8ad
commit f0d96b30ca
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xCAT-genesis-scripts/bin/bmcsetup
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@ -399,10 +399,21 @@ if [ ! "$IPMIVER" == "1.5" ]; then
#if [ $TRIES -gt $TIMEOUT ]; then echo "ERROR"; else echo "OK"; fi
fi
# Reset the BMC for the x3755 M4 (8722), otherwise the BMC will not be pingable after running of bmcsetup
#
# Cold Reset the BMC for:
# Product ID: 309 - x3755 M4 (8722)
# Product ID: 43707 - IBM Power S822LC and S812LC
# Otherwise the BMC will not respond to ping after running bmcsetup
#
XPROD=`ipmitool mc info|grep "^Product ID"|awk '{print $4}'`
# Product ID with 43707 is for IBM Power S822LC and S812LC machine
if [ "$XPROD" = "309" -o "$XPROD" = "43707" ] ; then
if [ "$XPROD" = "43707" ]; then
# The IBM Power S822LC and S812LC should NOT need a reset to apply changes
# to the BMC. However, it seems there's a problem with the BMC where after
# 15 seconds, it stops responding. To work around until the firmware is fixed,
# have a sleep here for 30 seconds, then issue the reset of the BMC
sleep 30
fi
echo "Resetting BMC ..."
ipmitool mc reset cold
echo "Waiting for the BMC to appear ..."