Cress, Andrew R wrote: > There are several IPMI LAN parameters that need to be set properly, and an > IPMI user needs to be set up. Each parameter can be set with ipmitool, or > you could use detected defaults for most of the parameters by using > ipmiutil.sf.net. > > To set up a shared IP with the OS, and to set the null user with a null > password, enter 'ipmiutil lan -e -p ""'. > Then clients should be able to connect remotely for testing. You would > probably want to configure a custom username/password as well for production > use. > Whether a shared IP works with the box depends on the vendor. All Intel boxes I know of do support this, but many other vendors require a dedicated IP and port.
Supermicro has been particularly problematic. They used to only support an OEM authentication mechanism over LAN; not sure if that has changed. IIRC, ipmitool has a nice mode for setting up the LAN interface. The OpenIPMI library has a "CONFIGURING_FOR_LAN" document that describes all the different pieces that must be configured to make LAN work. You have a lot of little things to set up to make it work properly, assuming that any free tool will be able to use it at all. -corey ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
