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AsrockRack X470D4U and X470D4U2-2T BMC Firmware update problems
All these Black Friday Nonsense... Which makes no sense to me.
Turkish Lira went down %20 in one day. No more buying new stuff for me. So time to stick with stuff in hand.
Anyways,
I've got several Ryzen Boxes with AsrockRack X470D4U and X470D4U2-2T Mainboards,
I know a lot of providers here using these exact mainboards here with their Ryzen offerrings, So maybe some help here:
My problem is after updating the latest official BMC Firmware updates,
Here https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=X470D4U#Download and Here https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=X470D4U2-2T#Download
Each and every mainboards BMC IPMI interface is now not responding to pings or accessible over LAN.
I can send commands using ipmitool application from linux command line.
But no matter what I do, I can't be able to access to BMC IPMI over LAN.
Only info I can find from AsRock side is this thread from their forum:
But also this has got no official updates from AsRock.
Somebody mentioned https://www.asrockrack.com/support/faq.asp?id=40 this solution in that thread , but I also don't have the luxury to reboot and flash old version of firmware as all these boxes are production boxes with several virtual servers on them.
Anybody using these mainboards have any clue about what to do to regain access to BMC IPMI Web interface?
As I said I can get response using IPMITOOL from command line. And everything seems to be working.
Please help..
root@ryzen5:~# ipmitool lan print 1
Set in Progress : Set Complete
Auth Type Support : MD5
Auth Type Enable : Callback : MD5
: User : MD5
: Operator : MD5
: Admin : MD5
: OEM : MD5
IP Address Source : Static Address
IP Address : 192.168.100.25
Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0
MAC Address : a9:a2:60:67:d3:ea
SNMP Community String : AMI
IP Header : TTL=0x40 Flags=0x40 Precedence=0x00 TOS=0x10
BMC ARP Control : ARP Responses Enabled, Gratuitous ARP Disabled
Gratituous ARP Intrvl : 0.0 seconds
Default Gateway IP : 192.168.100.1
Default Gateway MAC : 00:0a:53:70:e0:00
Backup Gateway IP : 0.0.0.0
Backup Gateway MAC : 00:00:00:00:00:00
802.1q VLAN ID : Disabled
802.1q VLAN Priority : 0
RMCP+ Cipher Suites : 0,1,2,3,6,7,8,11,12,15,16,17
Cipher Suite Priv Max : caaaaaaaaaaaXXX
: X=Cipher Suite Unused
: c=CALLBACK
: u=USER
: o=OPERATOR
: a=ADMIN
: O=OEM
Bad Password Threshold : 0
Invalid password disable: no
Attempt Count Reset Int.: 0
User Lockout Interval : 0
Comments
@MrRadic or @Francisco might have an idea. I know they use asrockrack board.
Are you using the shared port settings or have a dedicated IPMI link?
Francisco
it is shared port.
Which Processor are you using ?
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what does the processor got to do with ipmi?
Ryzen 9 3900X btw...
Just had this happen on my X470D4U2-2T. I was able to reset them without taking the server down. Grab the Supermicro IPMICFG tools (https://www.supermicro.com/SwDownload/SwSelect_Free.aspx?cat=IPMI) and check to see if the config is present. ipmicfg -m should show IP.
Mine was blank, had to reconfig IP, username/password. After all was configured, I did an ipmicfg -r to reboot the IPMI and after 5 minutes I was able to hit web interface again.
I'm not sure, I haven't played with the shared/bridge port mode at all.
If you can I'd plugin the dedicated IPMI just to login so you can confirm the bridge settings are OK.
Francisco
You need to make sure your not bonding the ports in the IPMI. Keep IPMI dedicated
maybe @terrahost could give a hint
Just uncheck bonding under settings > network
I tested both ipmicfg and ipmitool my ip address / mac address all setup all correct.
still no webinterface...
I read that Dedicated ipmi port and Shared one are backups of each other.
If there is link on Dedicated port IPMI BMC will use it as default on boot , but if there is no link it will use the shared one.
Thank you for your comments
I guess these AsrockRack mainboards are defacto standard for Ryzen builds.
I know Supermicro have one model for ryzens but I wonder why not other big mainboard manufacturers manufacture boards just for this use case.
There is sure a market for this application of ryzen cpu's.
I don't have any kind of access to webinterface.
I wil now check if I can edit this setting using ipmitool / ipmicfg.
Thank you for your answer.
Ryzen isn't meant for enterprise/server usage. This is why we have a lot of fried node incidents [( @Francisco )]. EPYC, though, is 100% fine.
@ferefient the processor might be designed for the desktop market, but those mobos and chassis that the usual reputable Ryzen web hosting provider use, are 100% enterprise grade. I can't debate you on your opinion about Ryzen, but certainly there is a market for it in the hosting market, specially the low end market, which by definition is "try to get as much performance as possible paying as less as possible" from the customer perspective.
Ryzen supports ECC and these server grade asrock boards also support ECC.
Overall yes, not suitable for a big enterprise that is spending a few hundreds K in server and infra. But otherwise Ryzen do the job.
Is a love and hate relationship.
Yes, make sure it's using a $30 PSU that's 1000W, and make sure it's all capped out with 10-year-old NOS Taiwanese caps.
Are you sure you know what you are talking ?
You can't figure out what else do they have problem with
By the way, I'm using the same model (5 Units), no issue like this but some other issues. I have the contact of their tech team, if you want you can directly communicate.
Updates on this matter:
1- After tons / hours of brain thinkering and google searches I figure out that the most sensible way is to downgrade the bmc firmware to a "working" one.
2- I then needed ASPEED socflash utility v 1.2 linux version - which is very hard to get - Aspeed was providing it from their website but no more - After some google foo I found it. If anybody needs socflash utility v1.2 linux version, you are free to contact me.
3- flashed old bmc firmware with socflash linux utilty
4- After firmware downgrade:
root@r5:~/socflash/SOCFLASH# ipmitool mc info Device ID : 32 Device Revision : 1 Firmware Revision : 2.20 IPMI Version : 2.0 Manufacturer ID : 49622 Manufacturer Name : Unknown (0xC1D6) Product ID : 514 (0x0202) Product Name : Unknown (0x202) Device Available : yes Provides Device SDRs : no Additional Device Support : Sensor Device SDR Repository Device SEL Device FRU Inventory Device IPMB Event Receiver IPMB Event Generator Chassis Device Aux Firmware Rev Info : 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 root@r5:~/socflash/SOCFLASH# ipmitool lan print 1 MAC Address : a8:a1:59:86:f3:ec SNMP Community String : AMI IP Header : TTL=0x40 Flags=0x40 Precedence=0x00 TOS=0x10 BMC ARP Control : ARP Responses Enabled, Gratuitous ARP Disabled Gratituous ARP Intrvl : 0.0 seconds Default Gateway IP : 0.0.0.0 Default Gateway MAC : 00:00:00:00:00:00 Backup Gateway IP : 0.0.0.0 Backup Gateway MAC : 00:00:00:00:00:00 802.1q VLAN ID : Disabled 802.1q VLAN Priority : 0 RMCP+ Cipher Suites : 0,1,2,3,6,7,8,11,12,15,16,17 Cipher Suite Priv Max : caaaaaaaaaaaXXX : X=Cipher Suite Unused : c=CALLBACK : u=USER : o=OPERATOR : a=ADMIN : O=OEM Bad Password Threshold : 0 Invalid password disable: no Attempt Count Reset Int.: 0 User Lockout Interval : 0 root@r5:~/socflash/SOCFLASH#5- Now it's time to Enter the usual ip address / gateway of the IPMI
6- WEB INTERFACE WORKS NOW!!!
7- Time to upgrade to latest version of BMC firmware now
Thank you for all your answers!