Currently if I want to know the server IPMI address, I will have to go to the SBIOS and check under BMC. Is there a way to get the IPMI address from inside a virtual machine ?
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Please specify the vendor of your BMC / motherboard.– AntonioKJan 29, 2015 at 8:26
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And please tell us, why do you want to look for BMC settings from virtual machine, not from physically installed OS?– AntonioKJan 29, 2015 at 8:27
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If not from a virtual machine then is it possible to know the IPMI address from a physically installed OS? If yes, then how?– user267201Jan 29, 2015 at 14:14
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Vendors : SMC , Gigabyte– user267201Jan 29, 2015 at 14:41
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+ Cirrascale (Maximum nos)– user267201Jan 29, 2015 at 15:30
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To get information about IPMI (and change it's settings) from a physically installed OS, you could use ipmitool(1) and numerous software like it. Mostly it requires root privileges to run.
Then you could do something like that:
$ sudo ipmitool lan print
Set in Progress : Set Complete
Auth Type Support : NONE MD2 MD5 PASSWORD OEM
Auth Type Enable : Callback : NONE MD2 MD5 PASSWORD OEM
: User : NONE MD2 MD5 PASSWORD OEM
: Operator : NONE MD2 MD5 PASSWORD OEM
: Admin : NONE MD2 MD5 PASSWORD OEM
: OEM :
IP Address Source : Static Address
IP Address : 172.20.0.30
Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0
MAC Address : 00:25:90:9d:a1:dc
SNMP Community String : AMI
IP Header : TTL=0x40 Flags=0x40 Precedence=0x00 TOS=0x10
BMC ARP Control : ARP Responses Enabled, Gratuitous ARP Disabled
Gratituous ARP Intrvl : 0.0 seconds
Default Gateway IP : 172.20.0.1
Default Gateway MAC : 00:00:00:00:00:00
Backup Gateway IP : 0.0.0.0
Backup Gateway MAC : 00:00:00:00:00:00
802.1q VLAN ID : Disabled
802.1q VLAN Priority : 0
RMCP+ Cipher Suites : 0,1,2,3,6,7,8,11,12
Cipher Suite Priv Max : XaaaXXaaaXXaaXX
: X=Cipher Suite Unused
: c=CALLBACK
: u=USER
: o=OPERATOR
: a=ADMIN
: O=OEM
In this example 172.20.0.30 is address of IPMI.
