Received from Jim Murphy on Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 12:00:04AM EDT:
> On Aug 30, 2007, at 7:11 PM, Lev Givon wrote:
> > Received from Dmitry Frolov on Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:44:05PM EDT:
> >
> >>> Received from Cress, Andrew R on Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:34:16AM
> >>> EDT:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> If the server won't respond to Get Channel Authentication
> >>>> Capabilities
> >>>> (the first IPMI LAN request, required by the IPMI spec), then
> >>>> either the
> >>>> IPMI LAN isn't configured, or it doesn't support IPMI LAN.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> The LOM device on the Xserve is configured; I can successfully query
> >>> it using Apple's version of ipmitool from a remote machine using
> >>>
> >>> IPMITool -U username -H hostname sdr
> >>>
> >>
> >> You can get the dumps with Linux and Apple's ipmitool -vvv (if
> >> Apple's
> >> ipmitool also supports this) and look at the difference.
> >>
> >
> > Unfortunately, Apple's version of ipmitool doesn't print any extra
> > information when the verbosity flags are specified.
> >
>
> That's sort of a feature. Architecturally our version of ipmitool is
> just a skeleton that wraps around a private system framework that
> does all of the IPMI work. The verbosity flags are telling the tool
> to tell the framework to be verbose, but that doesn't really do much
> in the production version you have. I'll see if there is a way to
> provide a debug version in the future that can be helpful for this
> sort of issue.
>
>
> > Here is what I obtained after running the command
> >
> > ipmitool -vvv -C des -L OPERATOR -I lanplus -U username -H hostname
> > chassis status
> >
>
> There are two problems with your command line here.
>
> Your "-C" cypher suite syntax is incorrect. The "C" parameter takes
> an integer from 0 to 15, not an ASCII string. If you want to
> explicitly specify it, "-C 3" is the strongest suite, but ipmitool
> uses 3 as the default so you can omit it.
>
> Second, our LOM firmware is from Intel, and you must tell ipmitool to
> use the IntelPlus work-around for authentication.
>
> With these two in mind, a valid command line would be:
>
> ipmitool -o intelplus -L OPERATOR -I lanplus -U username -H hostname
> chassis status
>
This doesn't appear to work; I observed the same behavior as
previously described.
>
> (Sorry I haven't responded sooner, but I've been out of the country
> and away from work.)
>
> Jim
L.G.
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