IPMI device not initialized on RHEL7.1
Issue
We are seeing an issue where the IPMI device is not getting created by default on some of our nodes.
Information from node where device gets created:
OS: Linux s01b06 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 18:37:38 EST 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# lsmod | grep -i ipmi
ipmi_devintf 17572 0
ipmi_si 53353 0
ipmi_msghandler 45603 2 ipmi_devintf,ipmi_si
# ls -l /dev/ipmi0
crw------- 1 root root 247, 0 May 21 13:28 /dev/ipmi0
# rpm -q --whatprovides /lib/modules/3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.ko
kernel-3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64
Information from node where device is not created:
OS: Linux s01b05 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 18:37:38 EST 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# lsmod | grep -i ipmi
ipmi_devintf 17572 0
ipmi_si 53353 0
ipmi_msghandler 45603 2 ipmi_devintf,ipmi_si
# ls -l /dev/ipmi0
ls: cannot access /dev/ipmi0: No such file or directory
# rpm -q --whatprovides /lib/modules/3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.ko
kernel-3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
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