Thanks for your reply Andy, I had been using sudo to execute the commands, I took them out when I was writing the email to make the email look less clustered. I'll leave them in from now on to be clear. So I was hesitant to set the password for user 1 b/c it had no name: ====================================================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED] frankma]$ sudo ipmitool -v -v user list 2 Using ipmi device 0 Set IPMB address to 0x20 ID Name Callin Link Auth IPMI Msg Channel Priv Limit 1 true true true ADMINISTRATOR 2 Operator true true true USER 3 Administrator true true true ADMINISTRATOR 4 Callback true true true USER 5 User true true true USER =======================================================================
But following your advice to tried to set the password to user 1. (so user 1 is the default user right?) And it still gave an error: ========================================================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED] frankma]$ sudo ipmitool -v -v user set password 1 pw Using ipmi device 0 Set IPMB address to 0x20 Set User Password command failed (user 1): Unspecified error =========================================================================== I am still a little confused about which user name/password we actually end up trying to access when we use "ipmitool -I lan -H xx.xx.xx.xx -U ?? ..." from a client machine. There seems to be a few choices on the host: - we can set password for the users (via ipmitool user set password ... ) - we can set password for a channel (via ipmitool lan set 2 password ... (channel 2 seems to be the only working channel)) - we can also set password from the SMDC utility software for user id 1-4 So what does a channel do and what does the user accounts do? When we use ipmitool on the client machine to call the host, are we accessing the ipmitool account or the SMDC-utility-software-set account? And when do we use "ipmitool channel getaccess <channel number> [userid]"? I'm sorry about the deluge of questions, it's just that I've not been able to get the remote management to work for some time and I feel a little frustrated. I would be equally happy if you could point me to some sources/readings that explain some of this. regards, -Frank Ma Quoting "Cress, Andrew R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Frank, > > It doesn't appear that you were root when you tried the set commands. > Does it work if you log in as root or use sudo? > > When you used the lan 2 command, it defaulted to user 1. > When you used the user 5 command, it tried to set user 5. Does the SMDC > have 5 users? Perhaps you should stick with the default user 1 for > starters. > > Andy > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank > Ma > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 6:57 PM > To: ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Ipmitool-devel] ipmitool set channel password error > > Sorry if you get this twice, it seems I need to become a part of the > mailing > list first to post to it. > > Dear ipmitoolers :), > I have a tyan host (s2882-D motherboard: > http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=127) with a M3289 SMDC > management card. I am having a difficult time using ipmitool to remotely > manage the host computer. Could you give me some pointers? Thanks! > > The host computer runs linux. On the host, I have loaded the OpenIPMI > drivers, > and I can access the SMDC card locally. eg I can, > ====================================== > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ipmi]$ ipmitool chassis power status > Chassis Power is on > ====================================== > > Now I want to use the lan interface to control the SMDC card from > another > computer. So I try to set the lan configurations: > =========================================================== > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ipmi]$ sudo ipmitool lan print 2 > Set in Progress : Set Complete > Auth Type Support : NONE MD5 PASSWORD > Auth Type Enable : Callback : NONE MD5 PASSWORD > : User : NONE MD5 PASSWORD > : Operator : NONE MD5 PASSWORD > : Admin : NONE MD5 PASSWORD > : OEM : NONE MD5 PASSWORD > IP Address Source : Static Address > IP Address : 10.16.2.35 > Subnet Mask : 255.0.0.0 > MAC Address : 00:e0:81:43:25:96 > SNMP Community String : public > IP Header : TTL=0x40 Flags=0xe0 Precedence=0x80 TOS=0x08 > BMC ARP Control : ARP Responses Enabled, Gratuitous ARP Enabled > Gratituous ARP Intrvl : 2.0 seconds > Default Gateway IP : 0.0.0.1 > Default Gateway MAC : 00:00:00:00:00:00 > Backup Gateway IP : 192.168.2.0 > Backup Gateway MAC : 00:00:00:00:00:00 > Cipher Suite Priv Max : Not Available > ============================================================ > I'm not quite sure what channel means to ipmitool, but it seems that > channel 2 > is the only one that works. > > I encounter a problem trying to set the password for channel 2 to be > "pw": > ======================================================= > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ipmi]$ ipmitool lan set 2 password pw > Set LAN Password for user 1 failed: Unspecified error > ======================================================= > > Setting the user password also doesn't work: > ===================================================================== > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ipmi]$ ipmitool user set password 5 pw > Set User Password command failed (user 5): Unspecified error > ===================================================================== > But this password is different from the lan connection password right? > Have I done something wrong? > > thanks very much for your help, > -Frank > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > - > 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. 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