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Supermicro IPMIView KVM Console does not work at all
Better answer and complete solution. The problem was the firmware for the IPMI on these boards was too old (not the same as the BIOS - updating the BIOS will not help in this case).
Digging around ...
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Can't Start IPMIView on Windows 7 or 10
windows 10
Find SUPERMICRO and expand themenu
right click on IPMIView in the menu.
Then select More.
Then select "Run as Administrator"
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What is the difference between IDRAC, IPMI and ILO?
Old question but ... ;
IPMI - Intelligent Platform Management Interface ( General Standard )
IDRAC - Integrated Dell Remote Access ( Dell )
ILO - Integrated Lights-Out ( HP )
IMM - Integrated ...
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"HDD Status" in ipmitool sensor output
ipmitool might use sensor number and sensor name for command output. You can use the following command to print the command output in a more friendly format:
ipmitool -H <ipmi_ip> -U <...
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How to run IPMI consoles now that NPAPI plugins are no longer supported?
Try javaws <jnlp-URL>. This runs Java plugins outside of the browser.
https://www.java.com/en/download/faq/java_webstart.xml. Also, look if you vendor offers other tools to work with this.
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Can I reboot ipmi itself?
To just add some additional information for anyone coming upon this question. Independent of the vendor implementation, one can typically also "cold reset" the service processor via standard IPMI ...
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Is there a command to renew dhcp lease for ipmi?
I have found a solution to rerequest an address for ipmi (at least I have tested it working on Supermicro server).
The trick is to set ip address source to static and then back to dhcp. For example:
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Can I use ipmitool to determine which IPMI link is 'up'?
The following works if you are SSH'd in to the server, so assumedly it should work via the "ipmitool -I lanplus" method as well:
ipmitool raw 0x30 0x70 0x0c 0
The results are as follows:
00 = ...
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Configuring SuperMicro IPMI to use one of the LAN interfaces instead of the IPMI port?
You can also use ipmitool to set the lanport:
sudo ipmiutil smcoem lanport dedicated
Then check that your config is right:
sudo ipmiutil lan -e
You should see the line:
SuperMicro Lan Interface :...
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What are the advatages of IPMI when matched against regular SSH?
That question makes no sense. This is like what is the difference between a car and an answering machine.
SSL is a transport level security.
IPMI is a remote control protocol. It may, btw., utilize ...
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SuperMicro BMC on OpenSuSE Linux --cannot access from LAN
I was getting that IPMI command failed: Request data field length limit exceeded error using ipmitool, so I downloaded ipmicfg from SuperMicro's website. That program told me that the password I'd ...
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Support for virtual IPMI in a VM?
These days, such a beast does exist for libvirt, called VirtualBMC.
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Supermicro IPMI KVM: connection failed
For some reason any version of the IPMIView doesn't work with IPMI firmwares >= 3.32, including the last IPMIView one. You have to use the browser launching their Java plugin from a web-interface, and ...
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Grub CLI Arrow Keys Don't Work With IPMI SOL
I had exactly the same problem as you but finally I realized we don't need Up arrow and Down arrow to navigate. See the comment at the bottom of the GRUB screen:
Use the ^ and v keys to select ...
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Cannot boot server after power failure
After rapidly switch on off the psu in furious rage, the server finally boots.
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Understanding ipmitool output for "Power Supply" (PSU)
According to the man page, lnr means "Lower non-recoverable" which suggests strongly that it's time to get a replacement for PSU2.
The AC Lost and PWR Detect entries would almost certainly ...
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Fan Speeds on SuperMicro System via IPMI
In order to force the fans at a particular speed all the time, you need to do the following on a Supermicro X9 board:
Set IPMI fan mode to "Full"
Set fan speed for the particular zone to ...
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How can I manage hundreds of IPMI BMCs?
I'm surprised nobody mentioned MAAS (http://maas.io/), which does exactly what you are looking for. It can autoconfigure and manage BMCs, and in addition deploy any OS onto the nodes you have enlisted ...
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How to find out the exact IPMI unit you have for firmware upgrade?
I was able to find it right in the boot log/dmesg.
Then simply look for that hardware name on the supermicro firmware page!
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Supermicro IPMI and Windows Share
On my SMT-based IPMI 2.0, which is a rather old generation, a ISO-image won't mount no matter what. I had success via Java-console, which also allows mounting images.
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How to disable ipmi over lan using ipmitool
Here is another way to disable lan channel :
ipmitool lan set 1 access off
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Supermicro IPMI is not working
If you plug a Windows laptop directly into the IPMI port, reboot the laptop and type 'arp -a' it should (hopefully) show you what IP address the IPMI port is advertising, this should help.
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ipmitool: how to deal with frozen SOL session
ipmitool sol deactivate is supposed to solve this.
But from your question it looks like you have some problems with serial console on the host.
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Supermicro IPMIView KVM Console does not work at all
These old IPMI are problematic. What I do is:
Set-UP a VM with Windows 7
Install Java 6: https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/oracle-java-archive-downloads.html
Use Internet Explorer default in ...
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How to run IPMI consoles now that NPAPI plugins are no longer supported?
I finally got the console working. I was using JRE8 which just wouldn't play ball with the jnlp file. It kept giving me FailedDownloadException with a nested exception of SSLHandshakeException as the ...
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Supermicro SYS-5019S-M and IPMI temperature threshold
Ok, after some time I obtained a definitive answer from SuperMicro. Quoting it:
System Temperature RT1 represents local inlet air temperature inside
the system and Peripheral Temperature RT2 ...
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Multliple core overload above 100% on Centos7 Supermicro Server
The culprit was indeed a faulty ram module. The anomalous spike in cpu usage appeared as the ram error started to pop up in the logs. the module has been identified and replaced, and the problem is ...
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ipmitool and freeipmi don't see the same sensors
FreeIPMI maintainer here. Please try the workaround flag "-W discretereading" for ipmi-sensors. HP motherboards have a well known issue where they define a large number of sensors illegally. It's ...
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Is it acceptable to sell a server without its root or ipmi password?
Best practice here, and best experience for the buyer would be to do the following:
Wipe the Hard Drives (DBAN or similar)
Figure out how to reset the IPMI password
Reset the BIOS to factory defaults,...
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Reset ASMB8 BMC Credentials
since you have an OS loaded with network connectivity (Windows it looks to be) there is another method using IPMICFG from SuperMicro:
You need to download IPMICFG for Windows from here: https://www....
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