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pgoetz

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From: Austin, Texas

Registered: 2014-02-21

Posts: 344

ipmitool documentation?

So, I have a new server with a Supermicro MB, and the BMC is set for failover, with no way to change this from the BIOS.  This means that since no cable is plugged into the IPMI port, the BMC module listens on the standard ethernet connection and picks up an IP address from the DHCP server, creating a huge security problem.

As far as I can tell, the only way to change this is using the ipmitool, which is available in the Community package repository; however I can find no documentation on how to use it under Arch, and the instructions for Debian don't work.  In particular

# modprobe ipmi_devinf
# modprobe ipmi_si
# ipmitool chassis status
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory

Does anyone know where I can find some documentation?

ukhippo

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From: Non-paged pool

Registered: 2014-02-21

Posts: 366

Re: ipmitool documentation?

Documentation:
• The man page
• /usr/share/doc/ipmitool/README
• the “-h” option to ipmitool

However, do you have the “ipmi_msghandler” kernel module loaded? You need that as well.