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  • 1.  ipmitool or bmctool required on AIX, in order to use plc tool

    Posted Wed April 01, 2020 11:38 AM

    Originally posted by: Ralf Pommrich


    More and more Power Servers are shipped with an openBMC (e.g. Power8 / 7063-CR1 HMC, AC922 GPU Servers ...). For advanced Hardware Diagnostics we are always asked to collect the data via the plctool (which requires the ipmitool or openbmc tool). Furthermore for advanced hardware monitoring (e.g. System & Component Temperature) the only way is through one of the tools mentioned (especially for 7063-CR1 HMC). Hence our ITM Servers are hosted on AIX we need an AIX compatible packages in order to query the information and monitor our hardware.

     

    Requirement for the plc tool, per IBM, see https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/POWER9/p9eih/p9eih_openbmc_tool.htm
    Official openbmc Tool from IBM http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/lopdiags/scaleOutLCdebugtool.html
    official sources of the ipmitool: https://github.com/ipmitool/ipmitool

     

    ipmitool pre-reqs are:
    perl (already part of AIX and the AIX Tool Box)
    sshpass    (already part of the AIX Tool Box)

     

    openbmc tool pre-reqs are: 
    python 3 (already part of the AIX Tool Box)
    python 3 requests
    python 3 simplejson

     

    The easiest would be probably just to make the ipmitool available hence the prerequisites are already available.



  • 2.  Re: ipmitool or bmctool required on AIX, in order to use plc tool

    Posted Wed April 01, 2020 02:27 PM

    Originally posted by: sanket


    Thank you for you post.

    We will look into ipmitool for AIX. 



  • 3.  RE: Re: ipmitool or bmctool required on AIX, in order to use plc tool

    Posted Mon June 21, 2021 07:58 AM
    Hi Sanket,

    any update about openbmctool for AIX?
    We already got a couple of new HMC 7063-CR2 where openbmctool is required to interact with the new OpenBMC.

    CHers Patrick

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  • 4.  RE: Re: ipmitool or bmctool required on AIX, in order to use plc tool

    Posted Mon June 21, 2021 09:33 AM
    We have made ipmitool already available on AIX toolbox.
    Are you looking for something else ?

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  • 5.  RE: Re: ipmitool or bmctool required on AIX, in order to use plc tool

    Posted Mon June 21, 2021 09:51 AM
    Hi Sanket,

    there is still one prereq missing for openbmctool:

    openbmc tool pre-reqs are: 
    python 3 (already part of the AIX Tool Box)
    python 3 requests (already part of the AIX Tool Box)
    python 3 simplejson (missing)

    CHers Patrick

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  • 6.  RE: Re: ipmitool or bmctool required on AIX, in order to use plc tool

    Posted Mon June 21, 2021 10:32 AM
    simplejson can be installed using pip or setuptools on AIX.

    # python3 -m pip install simplejson
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  • 7.  RE: Re: ipmitool or bmctool required on AIX, in order to use plc tool

    Posted Tue June 22, 2021 05:01 AM
    At least for software which IBM is propagating for their LC Systems (Collection Tools i.e. IBM OpenBMC tool) i would expect to get them from IBM itself.
    The approach is to have a Vendor maintained "save" source thru the widely accepted AIX Toolbox.
    And second where i am able to service packages within my local repository.
    Maybe your goal is another.

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