First run against real hardware over Redfish: an X10DRL-i (BMC 3.91) with
SFT-OOB-LIC. Its Redfish tree is recorded under
tests/fixtures/supermicro-x10drl-i-3.91/redfish, scrubbed.
- A resource refused for want of a further license (403 OemLicenseNotPassed)
no longer fails the getter. Storage then falls back to SimpleStorage. The
firmware list falls back to the BMC and BIOS versions when UpdateService
is withheld.
- get_device_warnings reports bmc_license_partial with the licenses and the
withheld parts (drives, firmware inventory).
- A placeholder system model ("Super Server") is replaced by the board
(PartNumber, else the chassis model).
2.7 KiB
Supermicro X10 (first test device: X10DRL-i)
Firmware
Supermicro shipped Redfish to X10 boards as a separate BMC firmware line, named
REDFISH_X10_<version>. For the X10DRL-i the latest is 3.91
(REDFISH_X10_391_20200806_unsigned.zip) in Supermicro's download center. Other X10
boards have 3.86–3.90 from 2019–2020. Users report Redfish version 1.0.x on these
firmwares, so expect:
- the legacy
Chassis/{id}/ThermalandPowerresources, notThermalSubsystem/Sensors, - an older
ManagerNetworkProtocolschema (NTP and SNMP details may be missing), - fewer collections overall (storage details may be absent).
The X10 BMC firmware is unlikely to get further updates. For the driver that is useful twice: it is the oldest Redfish the driver has to survive, and a real case for flagging outdated BMC firmware in netOrk's vulnerability management.
Supermicro's Redfish Reference Guide 1.0a was published with the X10 Redfish firmware. Supermicro's own HTML guide covers X12/H12 and later.
Check before starting
# Service root, no login: Redfish version and available collections
curl -sk https://<bmc>/redfish/v1/ | python3 -m json.tool
# The managed server: model, serial, BIOS, power state
curl -sk -u <user>:<password> https://<bmc>/redfish/v1/Systems/1 | python3 -m json.tool
Known Supermicro points (from memory, to verify on the device)
- Older Supermicro BMCs shipped with
ADMIN/ADMIN; newer ones have a unique password on a label. A BMC still onADMIN/ADMINis a test case for netOrk's default-credential audit (NetOrk/netork#141). - Verified on the X10DRL-i (3.91): without any license Redfish is refused altogether, even
the service root (403
OemLicenseNotPassed, naming SUM DCMS OOB). With SFT-OOB-LIC the service root, systems, processors, memory, chassis, thermal, power, managers, network protocol, accounts and logs answer, and so doesComputerSystem.Reset.Systems/1/StorageandUpdateServicestill want DCMS (SFT-DCMS-SINGLE); the driver then reads no drives, takes the BMC and BIOS versions fromManagers/1andSystems/1, and reportsbmc_license_partial.SimpleStorageanswers but is empty. Systems/1.Modelis "Super Server" on every board; the board isSystems/1.PartNumberandChassis/1.Model, which the driver reports as the model instead.- The system UUID over Redfish is the server's SMBIOS UUID (MAC-based on the X10), unlike the IPMI FRU UUID.
- Vendor-specific data sits under
Oem.Supermicroin several resources.
IPMI on the same board
The X10DRL-i also speaks IPMI 2.0 over LAN (UDP 623), so the ipmi fallback can be tested on
the same device, and so can the check that reports IPMI over LAN as enabled.