CIMC C220 usccfg using

[christianhelbig1]

Hello Forum.

Is it possble to using the usccfg tool for rebooting the CIMC (OoB) over the OS?

I'm using RHEL 5.8

in the XML file i found nothing.

     <!-- cimc-header>
                <guid value="479142bb6aa34157aab67aa4c09ef84d"/>
                <author value="yodas@cisco.com"/>
                <released value="17JAN2011"/>
                <server value="C2xx"/>
                <container value="1.3.1.4"/>
        </cimc-header -->
        <cimc-params>
                <group token="network" name="Network">
                        <setting token="mode" name="NIC Mode" access="rw" type="enum">
                                <option name="Dedicated" value="0"/>
                                <option name="Shared LOM" value="1"  default="yes"/>
                                <option name="Cisco Card" value="2"/>
                                <option name="Shared LOM 10G" value="3"/>
                        </setting>
                        <setting token="redundancy" name="NIC Redundancy" access="rw" type="enum">
                                <option name="None" value="0"/>
                                <option name="active-active" value="2"  default="yes"/>
                                <option name="active-standby" value="1" />
                        </setting>
                        <subgroup token="interface" name="IPv4 Properties">
                        <setting token="dhcp-enabled" name="Use DHCP" access="rw" type="bool">
                                <option name="Disabled" value="0"/>
                                <option name="Enabled" value="1"  default="yes"/>
                        </setting>
                        <setting token="v4-addr" name="IP Address" access="rw" type="ipaddress"/>
                        <setting token="v4-netmask" name="Subnet Mask" access="rw" type="ipaddress"/>
                        <setting token="v4-gateway" name="Gateway" access="rw" type="ipaddress"/>
                        </subgroup>
                        <setting token="vlan-enabled" name="Enable VLAN" access="rw" type="bool">
                                <option name="Disabled" value="0" default="yes"/>
                                <option name="Enabled" value="1" />
                        </setting>
                        <setting token="vlan-id" name="VLAN ID" access="rw" type="integer"/>
                        <setting token="vlan-priority" name="Priority" access="rw" type="text"/>
                </group>
                <group token="user" name="User Management">
                        <setting token="user-passwd" name="Default User Password" access="w" type="password"/>
                </group>
                <group token="utilities" name="Utilities">
                        <setting token="cimc-defaults" name="Reset CIMC to Factory defaults" access="w" type="bool">
                                <option name="Disabled" value="0" default="yes"/>
                                <option name="Enabled" value="1"/>
                        </setting>

best regards

[Walter Dey]

Did you every try Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) ?

[christianhelbig1]

IPMI is running

[root@server ucscfg]# service ipmi status
ipmi_msghandler module loaded.
ipmi_si module loaded.
ipmi_devintf module loaded.
/dev/ipmi0 exists.

This is the Output after Updating Firmware CIMC.

[root@server ucscfg]# /home/user/ucscfg/ucscfg show /cimc
UCS Configuration Utility Utility v3.2 Build 1
(c) 2013 Copyright Cisco Systems Inc., All rights reserved.

## BIOSVersion :: C220M3.1.5.1h.0.071020132056
/cimc/network/mode Dedicated
/cimc/network/redundancy None
/cimc/network/vlan-enabled Disabled
/cimc/network/vlan-id 0001
/cimc/network/vlan-priority 0
/cimc/network/interface/dhcp-enabled Disabled
/cimc/network/interface/v4-addr 10.10.10.2
/cimc/network/interface/v4-netmask 255.255.255.0
/cimc/network/interface/v4-gateway 10.10.10.254

How is it possible to reboot the CIMC over OS? I didn't found nothing in the documention.

Thanks in Advanced

[Walter Dey]

CIMC is totally independent of any OS. UCS is agnostic to OS, doesn't reqire any agents. CIMC could be up and running, while the OS is down.

There is no way to start CIMC from the OS !

[Kirk J]

Thought I had run across a remote way to do it via ipmitool command, bmc reset cold, but not sure if that would work when locally run the on machine's OS the BMC/CIMC is present on.

Maybe try 'ipmitool bmc reset cold' as root ? <<<<< Disclaimer, I have not tried this in the lab yet :)

A CIMC that was in some kind of memory leak condition, may not respond to anything other than a Hard power cycle.

Kirk..