Troubleshoot Issues with Redfish Endpoint Discovery

If a Redfish endpoint is in the HTTPsGetFailed status, then the endpoint does not need to be fully rediscovered. The error indicates an issue in the inventory process done by the Hardware State Manager (HSM). Restart the inventory process to fix this issue.

Update the HSM inventory to resolve issues with discovering Redfish endpoints.

Error Symptom

The following is an example of the HSM error:

cray hsm inventory redfishEndpoints describe x3000c0s15b0

Example output:

Domain = ""
MACAddr = "b42e993b70ac"
Enabled = true
Hostname = "10.254.2.100"
RediscoverOnUpdate = true
FQDN = "10.254.2.100"
User = "root"
Password = ""
Type = "NodeBMC"
ID = "x3000c0s15b0"

[DiscoveryInfo]
LastDiscoveryAttempt = "2019-11-18T21:34:29.990441Z"
RedfishVersion = "1.1.0"
LastDiscoveryStatus = "HTTPsGetFailed"

Prerequisites

  • The Cray command line interface (CLI) tool is initialized and configured on the system.

Procedure

  1. Restart the HSM inventory process.

    cray hsm inventory discover create --xnames XNAME

  2. Verify that the Redfish endpoint has been rediscovered by HSM.

    cray hsm inventory redfishEndpoints describe XNAME

    Example output:

    Domain = ""
MACAddr = "b42e993b70ac"
Enabled = true
Hostname = "10.254.2.100"
RediscoverOnUpdate = true
FQDN = "10.254.2.100"
User = "root"
Password = ""
Type = "NodeBMC"
ID = "x3000c0s15b0"

[DiscoveryInfo]
LastDiscoveryAttempt = "2019-11-18T21:34:29.990441Z"
RedfishVersion = "1.1.0"
LastDiscoveryStatus = "DiscoverOK"

    Troubleshooting can stop if the discovery status is DiscoverOK. Otherwise, proceed to the next step.

  3. Re-enable the RedfishEndpoint by setting both the Enabled and RediscoverOnUpdate fields to true.

    If Enabled = false for the RedfishEndpoint, then it may indicate a network or firmware issue with the BMC.

    cray hsm inventory redfishEndpoints update BMC_XNAME \
            --id BMC_XNAME --hostname BMC_XNAME \
            --enabled true --rediscover-on-update true

  4. Verify that the Redfish endpoint has been rediscovered by HSM.

    Re-enabling the RedfishEndpoint will cause a rediscovery to start. Troubleshooting can stop if the discovery status is DiscoverOK.

    cray hsm inventory redfishEndpoints describe BMC_XNAME

    Troubleshooting: If discovery is still failing, then use the curl command to manually contact the BMC using Redfish.

    curl -k -u USERNAME:PASSWORD https://BMC_XNAME/redfish/v1/

    If there is no response from /redfish/v1/, then the BMC is either not powered or there is a network issue.

  5. Contact other Redfish URLs on the BMC.

    If the response is one of the following, then there is a firmware issue and a BMC restart or update may be needed:

    • An empty response:

      curl -ku USERNAME:PASSWORD https://BMC_XNAME/redfish/v1/Systems/Node0 | jq .

      Example output:

        % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  1330  100  1330    0     0   5708      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  5708
{}

    • A garbled response:

      curl -ku USERNAME:PASSWORD https://BMC_XNAME/redfish/v1/Managers/Self

      Example output:

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    • The URLs listed for the Systems do not include /Systems/ in the URL:

      curl -ku USERNAME:PASSWORD https://BMC_XNAME/redfish/v1/Systems | jq .

      Example output:

        % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   421  100   421    0     0   1427      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  1422
{
  "@odata.context": "/redfish/v1/$metadata#ComputerSystemCollection.ComputerSystemCollection",
  "@odata.etag": "W/\"1604517759\"",
  "@odata.id": "/redfish/v1/Systems",
  "@odata.type": "#ComputerSystemCollection.ComputerSystemCollection",
  "Description": "Collection of Computer Systems",
  "Members": [
    {
      "@odata.id": "/redfish/v1/Node0"
    },
    {
      "@odata.id": "/redfish/v1/Node1"
    }
  ],
  "Members@odata.count": 2,
  "Name": "Systems Collection"
}

    • The URL for a system is missing the SystemID:

      curl -ku USERNAME:PASSWORD https://BMC_XNAME/redfish/v1/Systems | jq .

      Example output:

        % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   421  100   421    0     0   1427      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  1422
{
  "@odata.context": "/redfish/v1/$metadata#ComputerSystemCollection.ComputerSystemCollection",
  "@odata.etag": "W/\"1604517759\"",
  "@odata.id": "/redfish/v1/Systems",
  "@odata.type": "#ComputerSystemCollection.ComputerSystemCollection",
  "Description": "Collection of Computer Systems",
  "Members": [
    {
      "@odata.id": "/redfish/v1/Systems/"
    }
  ],
  "Members@odata.count": 1,
  "Name": "Systems Collection"
}

    Troubleshooting: If there was no indication of a firmware issue, then there may be an issue with Vault or the credentials stored in Vault.