Netgate 8300: BMC FW Health - Sensor Failure
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We have a brand new Netgate 8300 with a BMC sensor failure of some sort.
IPMI Logs are showing:
0294 - RID:0295 TS:Fri Aug 16 17:08:42 2024 SN:BMC FW Health CON:BMC EC:Warning ST:Management Subsystem Health ED:Sensor failure - Asserted
Anyone have a clue what this sensor failure actually means? We are in contact with Netgate support but so far they've only suggested we send it back for exchange. However, this may be a common issue as one other person mentioned it on Reddit in the comments of my post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/1exahju/netgate_8300_bmc_fw_health_sensor_failure/
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We are actively investigating this. We will come back to you as soon as we have something definitive.
Steve
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watching this as I have the same issue on two new 8300s
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We sent ours back to Netgate for exchange on August 22nd. On August 26th Netgate RMA told us they have been halted from shipping out a replacement. On August 28th they told us they found a BMC glitch and are testing a new version. Have not heard anything else from them as of September 5th.
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There's a lot of stuff happening on this to resolve it. We'll come back to you as soon as we have a confirmed (and complete) fix.
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@stephenw10 I have three 8300 MAX’es waiting to be unpacked and installed at a customer. Are all shipped 8300’s expected to suffer this issue, and do you expect the fix to be software based, or are we looking at RMA’ing all of them?
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I'm not involved in the effort directly. Let me see if I can get anything further...
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@keyser said in Netgate 8300: BMC FW Health - Sensor Failure:
@stephenw10 I have three 8300 MAX’es waiting to be unpacked and installed at a customer. Are all shipped 8300’s expected to suffer this issue, and do you expect the fix to be software based, or are we looking at RMA’ing all of them?
The most prudent option would be to wait till the issue is fully resolved with the units in your possesion. I've wasted days of my personal time on Netgate hardware (both 1537 and 8300), not to mention the cost of company downtime.
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@ltctech I asked because I don’t wan’t to go through all that trouble - and have subsequently not unpacked them until there is a status on this. I’d rather just return them unpacked if the issues in known to be there and require RMA.
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@stephenw10 said in Netgate 8300: BMC FW Health - Sensor Failure:
I'm not involved in the effort directly. Let me see if I can get anything further...
Any Update on this? I have to unpack them tomorrow unless they need to be RMA’ed
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Let me see....
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Ok, we don't expect an RMA to be required here. The issue can be resolved with a BMC firmware update which can be applied in the field.
We have been testing it and will let you know as soon as we're sure it's good.
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@keyser
now you can unpack the cool new hardware! :) -
Yup and just to be clear this is not actually any sort of hardware issue. It's an incorrectly flagged value.
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@stephenw10
Hi there:
Any updates on this issue?
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Let me check. Last I heard the update was good.
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@stephenw10
Ok thanks. Is there an available update that I may apply then? -
Checking now. Might be tomorrow before I can find out from out guys in Austin who were testing it.
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Ok the update looks good in our testing and should be available very soon.
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@stephenw10
Ok then thank you.
Do you have any timeline?
