I am trying to use ipmi to monitor BMC instance (BM.Standard1.36, Oracle-Linux-7.3-2017.04.18-0) on hardware level however startup fails:
journalctl -xe
-- Defined-By: systemd
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-- Unit session-4420.scope has begun starting up.
May 29 19:50:01 bmc1 CROND[24336]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1)
May 29 19:50:01 bmc1 systemd[1]: Removed slice user-0.slice.
-- Subject: Unit user-0.slice has finished shutting down
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-- Unit user-0.slice has finished shutting down.
May 29 19:50:01 bmc1 systemd[1]: Stopping user-0.slice.
-- Subject: Unit user-0.slice has begun shutting down
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-- Unit user-0.slice has begun shutting down.
May 29 19:51:20 bmc1 polkitd[3112]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:24417:224642856 (system bus nam
May 29 19:51:20 bmc1 systemd[1]: Starting IPMI Driver...
-- Subject: Unit ipmi.service has begun start-up
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-- Unit ipmi.service has begun starting up.
May 29 19:51:20 bmc1 kernel: IPMI System Interface driver.
May 29 19:51:20 bmc1 kernel: ipmi_si: Unable to find any System Interface(s)
May 29 19:51:20 bmc1 openipmi-helper[24434]: Startup failed.
May 29 19:51:20 bmc1 systemd[1]: ipmi.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
May 29 19:51:20 bmc1 systemd[1]: Failed to start IPMI Driver.
-- Subject: Unit ipmi.service has failed
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-- Unit ipmi.service has failed.
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-- The result is failed.
Running same command on my in-prem server completes with no problem. Is there anything special have to be done in BMC?