Questions tagged [ipmitool]
A command-line interface for devices with IPMI enabled.
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IPMI: SOL Hangning
I have IPMI configured on a Ubuntu server.
Currently, the power status is on, but I cannot access this remote appliance.
ipmitool -Ilan -H IP -UADMIN -P'password' chassis power status
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Serial-Over-Lan with Dell R410. Invalid data field in request
It's a R410 with the latest BMC firmware.
I can connect it from a MacBook.
$ ipmitool -v -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.23 -U root user list
Password:
ID Name Callin Link Auth IPMI Msg ...
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OS Install Using IPMI Tool
I am working on a script which would allow me to reload the OS on my machine without having to use the IPMI, attach media, hit the DEL key, boot to media, etc. I know once I get media attached using ...
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Supermicro ipmi dcmi privileges
Recently we tried to monitor supermicro's servers power consumption.
And got this error:
ipmitool -I lanplus -U readonly_user -H ip_address -P password dcmi power reading -L user
DCMI request failed ...
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Remote restart server by ipmitool
I can't restart remote server with ipmi.
I use ipmitool -U user -P password -H ip -I lan chassis cycle, also I tried power reset e.t.c, but ipmitools answers Get HPM.x Capabilities request failed, ...
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Fujitsu IPMI fan speed control
My goal is to reduce the noise and save a little bit of power of my Fujitsu Primergy RX300 S6.
I am using Proxmox as my OS and already installed "ipmitool" which works great for reading ...
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What is the time limit for IPMI soft reboot timeout to revert to hard reboot?
Using frucontrol you can specify a soft reboot ipmi request with the command
ipmitool picmg frucontrol 0 2
Where the "2" at the end indicates a reboot, as opposed to a "0" which ...
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Setting Asset Tag (Overriding board_asset_tag)
I am trying to set Asset Tag for DELL server(From Machine1 to Machine2). I have tried the following options
ipmitool dcmi set_asset_tag Machine2
This doesnt seem to set the asset tag. When i try to ...
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What do these IPMI System Event Logs mean?
I'm currently trying to troubleshoot what seem to be hardware issues with a x3650 m3 machine. Using IPMItools, I'm reading recurring assertion events from sensor type: 0F, sensor no: B5 that repeat ...
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IPMI graceful shutdown before `power cycle` when executing with ipmitool?
I have many servers that sometimes require the entire server to be cold started due to certain changes.
We have many servers so this all is automated.
Right now, if the process requires a cold start, ...
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"ipmitool chassis bootdev" command fails with command disabled
On a Lenovo System x3550 M5, running ipmitool chassis bootdev command fails with
Set Chassis Boot Parameter 4 failed: Cannot execute command, command disabled
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% ipmitool chassis bootdev pxe ...
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Command works from bash prompt; does not work from within shell script
I'm trying to use IPMITOOL to query a bunch of OOB NICs to get their MAC addresses.
When I run:
ipmitool -I lanplus -H 1.2.3.4 -U USER -P PASS lan print
I get:
MAC Address : aa:bb:cc:dd:...
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IPMITool complains that /dev/ipmi0 doesn't exist, when it does
On my Ubuntu 16.04 server (Asrock E3C224D2I), I can't run ipmitool. It complains that it Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory.
Output of ls /...
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HP BL460c Gen8 Product name change
After replacing the system board in a HP BL460c Gen8 Server blade,the Product name had changed from "Proliant BL460c Gen8" to "StoreEasy3830 Gtwy Blade". This is some thing that you can not change in ...
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Retrieving blade/chassis (HP C7k) information from within the host through IPMI
On an HP C7000 blade enclosure with standard DL385's with up to date ILO2 (2.29); local (and remote) IPMI works splendidly for getting the usual temperatures, mac addresses, access to the console; ...
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FreeIPMI (ipmi-sensors) not displaying PROC/MEM sensors from HP servers
I am trying to monitor our physical hardware using FreeIPMI, specifically I want to be alerted on processor, memory, power supply, and disk failures for our IBM, DELL, and HP servers. Running ipmi-...
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ipmitool not functioning the same after upgrade to 14.04
I currently have a se7501br2 motherboard that functions in a server running ubuntu 14.04. I have recently update to 14.04 from 12.04. Before this upgrade, I was able to use "ipmitool sensor" to get ...
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What do the "Unknown" hex error codes in my SEL logs indicate?
I dumped the SEL logs from my entire fleet and I have a bunch of occurrences where the SEL entries do not provide any info. So far I've had these entries show up numerous times:
Unknown #0xff | | ...
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IPMI sensors that have the same name, how to access them individually
How can an IPMI "sensor" be directly addressed when the sensor "name" is used more than once by IPMI.
In many normal cases, if IPMI is responding with a list of sensors like :
:~$ ...
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KVM access via ipmitool
Is there a way to provide to a new user "KVM access" using ipmitool or sol? There is a checkbox in User Management settings and I can check it manually, but I have a few hundreds of servers (...
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Disabling local host ipmitool access
On servers from most/many vendors, I am able to see potentially sensitive information using commands like:
ipmitool user list 1
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ipmitool lan print 1
Or set new administrator users, all of which ...
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Is there a way to find CPU power use specifically?
I have a few nodes running CentOS 7.6. With DCMI and ipmitool, I can obtain the power use of the entire node. Is there any way to determine how much power is being used by a CPU alone, preferably ...
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How to add timeout between power off and power on as part of power cycle?
Is there a linux command or a way to cause a power cycle a system with a timeout/delay in between the power off and power on? Thanks.
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How does one get the system UUID from a server's BMC?
I need the uuid of some systems for ipxe booting purposes.. The problem is that these systems are powered off with no OS on them. I could power them on, but it would do me little good since they have ...
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ipmitool getsysinfo command failed
I'm trying to get the delloem_url property of a Dell PowerEdge R410 server with ipmitool, but it fails with message:
getsysinfo command failed: Requested sensor, data, or record not found
I recently ...
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Read product name with ipmiutil raw command
I would like to read Product name with IPMI raw command. I could use "fru" like this:
c:\Testing\ipmiutil>ipmiutil.exe fru -b -N <address> -U root -P root
ipmiutil ver 3.01
ifru: version 3....
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ipmitool and ALOM (Sun T2000)
ipmitool -vv -I lan -H srv-alom -U admin sdr
ipmitool -vv -I lanplus -H srv-alom -U admin sdr
or
ipmitool -vv -I lan -H srv-alom -U admin sensor
ipmitool -vv -I lanplus -H srv-alom -U admin sensor
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