Supermicro X7SPA L/H/HF ATOM serverboards (Level 1 Tested)

[Auggie]

I actually was having issues with a non-us keybord layout in the remote console.
SM support (for my part of the world, being delivered from netherlands) was fast and supportive for me...

BTW: check the IPMI firmware version...latest avail should be 1.34..my board came with 1.2x only two weeks ago.

My question now is: Has anyone gotten the JAVA version of IPView to work, specifically, the KVM Console?

I get an error "no iKVM32 in java.library.path"  From my research, it's telling me that the file iKVM32.so (UNIX) or iKVM32.dll (Windows) is not available in a library path.  I'm on OS X so I don't find an iKVM32.so file (there is an libiKVM32.so file), tho I do find a .dll file.

You can tell I'm a n00b to Java  

EDIT: Speaking of updating FW, have you updated your BIOS?  Newest is 1.0c and I have 1.0b.  My BIOS tends to randomly not respond to keyboard on me when I'm accessing it so I'm thinking of updating it, however, I have no floppy, no CD drive.  The manual says it can be flashed from a bootable USB device (e.g. Flash Drive) but have you actually updated BIOS under UnRAID?

[theone]

My question now is: Has anyone gotten the JAVA version of IPView to work, specifically, the KVM Console?

I get an error "no iKVM32 in java.library.path"  From my research, it's telling me that the file iKVM32.so (UNIX) or iKVM32.dll (Windows) is not available in a library path.  I'm on OS X so I don't find an iKVM32.so file (there is an libiKVM32.so file), tho I do find a .dll file.

You can tell I'm a n00b to Java  

I get the same blank screen with flashing cursor, and nothing when pressing the Console Redirection button. 

[WeeboTech]

it's telling me that the file iKVM32.so (UNIX) or iKVM32.dll (Windows) is not available in a library path. 

I'm not sure, but maybe setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the location of the directory storing  iKVM32.so would work.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/pathtowherelibraryistored.
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

then run the IPMI Java application.
If it complained about a .jar file missing, that would be a Java class path.
This seems to be a shared library path.

*shrug* maybe it will help.

[Ford Prefect]

My question now is: Has anyone gotten the JAVA version of IPView to work, specifically, the KVM Console?

I get an error "no iKVM32 in java.library.path"  From my research, it's telling me that the file iKVM32.so (UNIX) or iKVM32.dll (Windows) is not available in a library path.  I'm on OS X so I don't find an iKVM32.so file (there is an libiKVM32.so file), tho I do find a .dll file.

You can tell I'm a n00b to Java  

If you downloaded the zip file of the JAVA Version
and unzipped it into a Directory (i.e. "IPMIViewer"),
everything is in there.
All you have to do is to start the application from there, pointing the JAVA search
path into that very directory.
There is a linux shell script, called "IPMIView20.sh" in there as well.
Open it, and you can see the command to issue in order to start the IPMIViewer.
Mine states a single command: "java -Djava.library.path=. -jar IPMIView20.jar"
That does the trick on my side.

BTW: When you will use the KVM Console from inside IPMI-Viewer or from inside
the Web-Browser, it will download a JavaWebStart-file. You will need to find out on how
to (auto-)start these files on your platform. For the Browser-version I had to download
a plugin for firefox in order to get it to work and asoftware package for my OS
when launched from IPMIViewer.

[Ford Prefect]

EDIT: Speaking of updating FW, have you updated your BIOS?  Newest is 1.0c and I have 1.0b.  My BIOS tends to randomly not respond to keyboard on me when I'm accessing it so I'm thinking of updating it, however, I have no floppy, no CD drive.  The manual says it can be flashed from a bootable USB device (e.g. Flash Drive) but have you actually updated BIOS under UnRAID?

...once you have IPMIViewer up and running, and the KVM Concole you can
share resources with the unRAID box, like a real CD-drive, an ISO-file or a floppy image.
This will appear as a USB Drive in the Supermicro BIOS...normally, the board would
alter the boot sequence...I have found, however, that I must remove the unRAID flash,
because it would always win against the virtual USB CDROM, no matter what I do.

...I'll used this feature to boot a systemrescue CD ISO but havent'nt tried a BIOS update yet.
Will check for the changelog if it is worth a try, since my board is running fine headless.
...many thanks for the info.

EDIT: hmmm...no changelog?

[Auggie]

All you have to do is to start the application from there, pointing the JAVA search
path into that very directory.

Uh... how do I "point the JAVA search path"...?  I realize that I had to "point" or "set" some variable path but the "doing" has me stumped and Googling didn't really help me much as their was no clear-cut instrux on exactly step-by-step how to do this.

Mine states a single command: "java -Djava.library.path=. -jar IPMIView20.jar"

Yea, I saw the script and I tried running it too, but I get errors about QXPScriptingAdditions not available or found and I still get the error when trying to get the "KVM Console" to actually launch (I can run IPView.jar just fine).

BTW: When you will use the KVM Console from inside IPMI-Viewer or from inside
the Web-Browser, it will download a JavaWebStart-file. You will need to find out on how
to (auto-)start these files on your platform. For the Browser-version I had to download
a plugin for firefox in order to get it to work and asoftware package for my OS
when launched from IPMIViewer.

Are are you referring to logging onto the IPMI side of the board via web browser and launching either Console Redirection or SOL, which attempts to load a Java applet?  If so, the Console Redirection launch button does nothing (Windows XP/7 nor OS X) and for SOL the Launch button in OS X it tells me to "upgrade to the latest Java runtime environment" (which I have the latest) while on the Windows side it launches a black console with flashing cursor that doesn't respond to anything :-(

FYI, on the Windows side, I run the Windows-specific IPView application, not the Java-based one, and it works just fine.  But I natively run OS X and don't want to launch my Windows virtualization just to control my UnRAID box, which is why I'm trying to get the Java based version of IPView (specifically the KVM Console, iKVM.jar) to work.

[Auggie]

...once you have IPMIViewer up and running, and the KVM Concole you can
share resources with the unRAID box, like a real CD-drive, an ISO-file or a floppy image.
This will appear as a USB Drive in the Supermicro BIOS...normally, the board would
alter the boot sequence...I have found, however, that I must remove the unRAID flash,
because it would always win against the virtual USB CDROM, no matter what I do.

...I'll used this feature to boot a systemrescue CD ISO but havent'nt tried a BIOS update yet.
Will check for the changelog if it is worth a try, since my board is running fine headless.
...many thanks for the info.

EDIT: hmmm...no changelog?

I don't believe you have to use a "shared" resource to update the BIOS.  The Supermicro BIOS update suggests you load the ROM update file at the root level of the bootable Flash drive, then once booted, run the "ami.bat" file with the new BIOS file using the format (boot drive letter):\> ami (name of ROM file).rom and that should flash the BIOS.

[Ford Prefect]

All you have to do is to start the application from there, pointing the JAVA search
path into that very directory.

Uh... how do I "point the JAVA search path"...?  I realize that I had to "point" or "set" some variable path but the "doing" has me stumped and Googling didn't really help me much as their was no clear-cut instrux on exactly step-by-step how to do this.

Mine states a single command: "java -Djava.library.path=. -jar IPMIView20.jar"

Yea, I saw the script and I tried running it too, but I get errors about QXPScriptingAdditions not available or found and I still get the error when trying to get the "KVM Console" to actually launch (I can run IPView.jar just fine).

I do not know much about OSX but I assume it is near to linux and not to Windoze.
The JAVA search paths are globally set in your OS...don't know how to do that under OSX, but if you are able to run
other java based apps fine, you should be OK.
The "-Djava.library.path" parameter would add the local dir to that path.
Did you try to run the command from a CLI, while having "cd"-ed into that directory where you unpacked the IPMIViewer package?

Are are you referring to logging onto the IPMI side of the board via web browser and launching either Console Redirection or SOL, which attempts to load a Java applet?  If so, the Console Redirection launch button does nothing (Windows XP/7 nor OS X) and for SOL the Launch button in OS X it tells me to "upgrade to the latest Java runtime environment" (which I have the latest) while on the Windows side it launches a black console with flashing cursor that doesn't respond to anything :-(

Yes, via browser...
Hmm...maybe a browser setting?
Are you able to run JAVA WebStart apps from within your browser?
You are supposed to download a jnlp file whenever you start a KVM session.
Mine looks like this:

<jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="https://192.168.0.5/">
  <information>
    <title>ATEN Java iKVM Viewer</title>
    <vendor>ATEN</vendor>
    <description>Java Web Start Application</description>
  </information>

  <security>
   <all-permissions/>
  </security>

  <resources>
    <property name="jnlp.packEnabled" value="true"/>
    <property name="jnlp.versionEnabled" value="true"/>
    <j2se version="1.6.0+" initial-heap-size="32M" max-heap-size="40M"/>
    <jar href="iKVM.jar" download="eager" main="true" version="1.57.3.0x0"/>
  </resources>

  <resources os="Windows" arch="x86">
    <nativelib href="libwin_x86.jar" download="eager" version="1.0.1"/>
  </resources>
  <resources os="Windows" arch="x86_64">
    <nativelib href="libwin_x86_64.jar" download="eager" version="1.0.1"/>
  </resources>
  <resources os="Windows" arch="amd64">
    <nativelib href="libwin_x86_64.jar" download="eager" version="1.0.1"/>
  </resources>

  <resources os="Linux" arch="i386">
    <nativelib href="liblinux_x86.jar" download="eager" version="1.0.1"/>
  </resources>
  <resources os="Linux" arch="x86">
    <nativelib href="liblinux_x86.jar" download="eager" version="1.0.1"/>
  </resources>
  <resources os="Linux" arch="x86_64">
    <nativelib href="liblinux_x86_64.jar" download="eager" version="1.0.1"/>
  </resources>
  <resources os="Linux" arch="amd64">
    <nativelib href="liblinux_x86_64.jar" download="eager" version="1.0.1"/>
  </resources>

  <resources os="Mac OS X" arch="x86_64">
    <nativelib href="libmac_x86_64.jar" download="eager" version="1.0.1"/>
  </resources>

  <application-desc main-class="tw.com.aten.ikvm.KVMMain">
    <argument>192.168.0.5</argument>
    <argument>djyazhkjtizmxorl</argument>
    <argument>djyazhkjtizmxorl</argument>
    <argument>5900</argument>
    <argument>2</argument>
    <argument>0</argument>
  </application-desc>
</jnlp>

FYI, on the Windows side, I run the Windows-specific IPView application, not the Java-based one, and it works just fine.  But I natively run OS X and don't want to launch my Windows virtualization just to control my UnRAID box, which is why I'm trying to get the Java based version of IPView (specifically the KVM Console, iKVM.jar) to work.

Yes, I understand. I started the same way. I am running a fedora 12 based machine for desktop.
I never tried to start the iKVM.jar directly...I used to jump off of the Browser-site or via IPMIViewer.

[Ford Prefect]

I don't believe you have to use a "shared" resource to update the BIOS.  The Supermicro BIOS update suggests you load the ROM update file at the root level of the bootable Flash drive, then once booted, run the "ami.bat" file with the new BIOS file using the format (boot drive letter):\> ami (name of ROM file).rom and that should flash the BIOS.

Yes, you do not HAVE to...but what's the reason of having a headless system in that case?
I am also not going to mount a physical drive or prepare a flash in order to boot DOS...only as a last resort 

[Auggie]

The "-Djava.library.path" parameter would add the local dir to that path.
Did you try to run the command from a CLI, while having "cd"-ed into that directory where you unpacked the IPMIViewer package?

Yea, I cd'd to point to the IPView folder itself, then ran the script file from my CLI (terminal in OS X).  That's when I got the OXPScriptingAdditions errors and no joy on getting KVM Console to launch still.

I am also not going to mount a physical drive or prepare a flash in order to boot DOS...only as a last resort

My sentiments EXACTLY!  Which is why I was inquiring if anyone did a BIOS update under the UnRAID OS 

I only feel like I need to update my BIOS because of intermittent cases where it seems to not respond to keyboard input and eventually will beep after each keypress.  Hitting the reset button is my only recourse.  I don't go into BIOS that often now that I have all my drives installed (I would disable each new drive installed so that the BIOS would not attempt to boot off any of them and would only look at the flash drive).

[Ford Prefect]

Yea, I cd'd to point to the IPView folder itself, then ran the script file from my CLI (terminal in OS X).  That's when I got the OXPScriptingAdditions errors and no joy on getting KVM Console to launch still.

Hmm, then I am out of my wisdom here...
I'd try to test my java install with some other apps.
Here on my side I am running a linux x64 OS with additional x32 layers...and not even Sun/Oracle JVM but IBM's J9 implementation of a JVM.
And it works like a charm.
So ..I don't think that IPMIViewer is to blame...might be a general problem with your JAVA installation.

I am also not going to mount a physical drive or prepare a flash in order to boot DOS...only as a last resort

My sentiments EXACTLY!  Which is why I was inquiring if anyone did a BIOS update under the UnRAID OS  

OK...well, strictly spoken no-one ever will perform a BIOS update under the unRAID OS, because you will have
to shutdown unRAID and boot into MSDOS.  

I only feel like I need to update my BIOS because of intermittent cases where it seems to not respond to keyboard input and eventually will beep after each keypress.  Hitting the reset button is my only recourse.  I don't go into BIOS that often now that I have all my drives installed (I would disable each new drive installed so that the BIOS would not attempt to boot off any of them and would only look at the flash drive).

Yes, I did the same thing basically...only I am running unRAID off of a SSD disk (on full slackware).

[Auggie]

Hmm, then I am out of my wisdom here...
I'd try to test my java install with some other apps.
Here on my side I am running a linux x64 OS with additional x32 layers...and not even Sun/Oracle JVM but IBM's J9 implementation of a JVM.
And it works like a charm.
So ..I don't think that IPMIViewer is to blame...might be a general problem with your JAVA installation.

I e-mailed Supermicro direct and they finally responded and gave me the latest IPMI firmware that's not even available on their site (v1.39) and that allows me to log onto the board and successfully have it automatically download and run the Console Redirection Java applet on my Mac!  I'm assuming it's cross-platform so it may solve similar issues on the Windows side (which I couldn't get to work for XP and Windows 7 either, but someday I will try it again with this FW)!

I've now got my virtual KVM going under OS X to the X7SPA board and LUVIN it!

Thanks for offering the time and effort in troubleshooting this with me!

EDIT: FYI, I also got my AOC-SASLP-MV8 card and other than the "normal-sized" backplane not able to fully seat down (tho the board is fully implanted into the PCIe slot), the mobo booted up and recognized the card immediately and UnRAID saw it and its attached drives too.  Truly plug-n-play, which was my hope!  It does take a bit longer to fully boot to UnRAID, but now I can expand up to 14 drives if and when the need arises!

[fortytwo]

I got mine tonight and was able to get suspend to RAM and wol working, but I'm having the "no-video-after-resume" issue, so I guess I'll have to give s2ram a try.
EDIT: So far, it looks like s2ram -f -p -s is doing the trick.

Also, for IPMI: I've gotten it working and was able to connect fine through the applet...but is there a way to access it quickly enough in order to be able to press 'delete' to get into the BIOS setup?  I haven't been able to get that...only been able to access it further along in the boot process.

[WeeboTech]

Also, for IPMI: I've gotten it working and was able to connect fine through the applet...but is there a way to access it quickly enough in order to be able to press 'delete' to get into the BIOS setup?  I haven't been able to get that...only been able to access it further along in the boot process.

On mine, I start up the applet first, do what I have to do, then even though the screen is blank. I keep pressing delete until I see the bios come up and start counting memory.  it might be harder if you have quickboot enabled.

[aiden]

On mine, I start up the applet first, do what I have to do, then even though the screen is blank. I keep pressing delete until I see the bios come up and start counting memory.  it might be harder if you have quickboot enabled.

Agreed.  I disabled quickboot on mine so that I have more time to catch the BIOS.  The video for POST won't show up until after it's already booting if you leave quickboot enabled.