Received from Jim Murphy on Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 07:56:12PM EDT:
> On Jul 26, 2007, at 4:13 PM, Lev Givon wrote:
> > I recently tried to use a build of ipmitool 1.8.9 on Linux to remotely
> > access the Lights Out Management device of an Apple Xserve (Intel
> > architecture). Although I was able to use the current version (2.0.0,
> > strangely enough) of ipmitool included in MacOSX 10.4.10 to access
> > said Xserve by specifying a username and password on the command line,
> > invoking the binary built on Linux with the same parameters resulted
> > in the following error:
> >
> > Invalid user name
> > Error: Unable to establish LAN session
> > Get Device ID command failed
> > Unable to open SDR for reading
>
> What command line parameters did you specify? Did you specify the
> "-C" (for Cypher Suite) option?
>
ipmitool -U myusername -H myxserve.com chassis status
I also tried ipmitool with the following parameters:
ipmitool -C 3 -L OPERATOR -I lanplus -U myusername -H myxserve.com
chassis status
This resulted in the following error when I tried it:
Error: Unable to establish IPMI v2 / RMCP+ session
Error sending Chassis Status command
Note that I built ipmitool against openssl 0.9.8e and freeipmi 0.3.1.
> Also, what does the result from "mc info" show when using the Mac OS X
> version of ipmitool?
>
Device ID : 32
Device Revision : 1
Firmware Revision : 1.2.7
IPMI Version : 2.0
Manufacturer ID : 63
Manufacturer Name : Apple Computer, Inc.
Product ID : 1 (0x0001)
Device Available : yes
Provides Device SDRs : no
Additional Device Support :
Sensor Device
SDR Repository Device
SEL Device
FRU Inventory Device
IPMB Event Receiver
Chassis Device
Aux Firmware Rev Info :
0x01
0x00
0x27
0x01
> (FWIW, I'm the software lead at Apple for all things BMC/LOM on Xserve.)
>
What better person to respond to my question? :-)
> I apologize for the confusion calling ipmitool on Mac OS X version
> 2. In hindsight, I probably should have done something different to
> differentiate our version. At a high level it still resembles
> ipmitool (upon which it was based), but behind the scenes it's been
> completely gutted to support our IPMI software infrastructure.
>
Perhaps a note in future versions of the man page would ameliorate the
confusion; judging from the page, one is lead to believe that there
should be no functional difference between the MacOSX version and the
stock open source version.
>
> Jim Murphy
>
L.G.
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