Received from Lev Givon on Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 02:46:06PM EDT:
> 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
>
Sorry to touch on this again, but is there currently any way to use
ipmitool 1.8.9 on Linux to query the LOMs on Apple Xserves?
L.G.
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