I would like to point out that IPMI or Intelligent Platform Management Interface is an open, industry-standard interface that was designed for the management of server systems over network. It enables you to monitor and control your server platform, as well as to retrieve information about your server platform is a standard.

I had a similar issue where I could arping the IPMI BMC and see it in my arp table, but could not ping it. The issue was that the BMC thought it was on a /31 network and was sending all replies to a non-existent default gateway. The solution is to change the default gateway in the IPMI config or add that gateway address to your client's NIC.

My organization is primarily a Dell shop running Windows. Most are recent models that support IPMI 2.0. (Dell 1950, for example). At a minimum I'd like to use IPMI to perform remote chassis power on/off, such as when a server is hung and no one is available at the NOC to hard boot it. Then, I'd like to see what else it can do. Configuring it is ...

2024年12月18日 · We are experiencing an issue with the IPMI tool on several of our Supermicro servers. We have a script that monitors the status of power supplies by running the command ipmitool sdr type "Power Supply". The command typically returns output like this:

2009年11月16日 · Get the user ID of the IPMI user whose password you want to set: ipmicfg -user list. Set a new password for that user (the ADMIN user typically has an ID of 2): ipmicfg -user setpwd 2 your_password_here. Login to the IPMI web GUI using the password you just set. I've reset the ADMIN password on dozens of Supermicro IPMI BMCs.

2015年3月27日 · I have something like this in place in RHEV 3, where the VM's power management is easily done via a small script, and VNC/Spice and a serial console are available. Not IPMI as such, but the functionality is right there. EDIT: there is a fence-rhev agent available as well, so that would cover the power management part

2015年1月27日 · Set IPMI fan mode to "Full" Set fan speed for the particular zone to the percentage fan speed you desire, expressed as a hexadecimal number. On the X9 boards, the possible speed range is 0-255, which is 0-100% expressed as hex, but on a scale where 0% = 0x00 and 100% = 0xff.

Write may have failed. happens due to prohibited write/change of IPMI/BMC parameters. The prohibition applied when in Section [LANCHANNELS] the parameter LANFailOver equals enable. To be able to change network settings of IPMI, this parameter should be set to disable to the time of change. Here is how to do that correctly:

I'm not familiar with IPMI, so take this as you wish, but you should probably use an UNC path instead of a drive letter. After all, it's talking about a Windows share. Try to create a network share on your server, with a path of C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\OperatingSystems\, and name it OperatingSystems, for example. Then, use the UNC path ...

2015年5月31日 · [ 0.421444] IPMI poweroff: ATCA Detect mfg 0x2A7C prod 0x801 [ 0.421710] IPMI poweroff: Found a chassis style poweroff function EDIT: I tried to use bmc-watchdog with configuration "-u 4 -p 2 -a 0 -F -P -L -O -i 300 -e 10". So only SMS/OS time is in use, pre-timeout interrupt is set to NMI, timeout action is set to NONE: