Yes, reading between the lines that seems to be the case, but with HP's iLO implementation on the DL180, it's a separate physical port and I don't appear to be able to bridge it with the server's default network interface.
Thanks, Frank -----Original Message----- From: Al Chu [mailto:ch...@llnl.gov] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 11:20 AM To: Frank Bulk Cc: ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Accessing ipmitools over network Hey Frank, Some motherboards do allow the IPMI to be "shared" or "dedicated" if there are multiple ethernet ports. It's configurable in the bios if by random luck you have it. Al On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 21:08 -0500, Frank Bulk wrote: > I've scoured the web and haven't been able to find a definitive answer, so > perhaps some can help me here. > > I have several HP DL180 G5's that I would like to monitor remotely from a > NAGIOS server using ipmitools. While each of the DL180's has a dedicated > iLO port, rather than wire them up and burn up expensive switch ports, I was > wondering if there was a way I could somehow using the regular network > interface and proxy requests to each server's BMC. Based on the behavior of > "ipmitools -I lan" option, it looks like it's trying to talk to port 623 on > the remote server. Obviously this proxy agent running on the remote server > would need to be listening to port 623 and pass that packet on to the remote > server's open or imb IPMI interface. I've looked at dpcproxy, and that > appears to be a telnet-based interface to a CLI, not a mechanism I believe > ipmitools can use. > > I also saw the "-t" option for ipmitools which has something to do with > bridging, but it's not clear to me if that's relevant or not. > > Any clarification on this approach would be appreciated. > > Kind regards, > > Frank > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your > production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to > Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 > Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image > processing features enabled. http:// p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com > _______________________________________________ > Ipmitool-devel mailing list > Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https:// lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel > -- Albert Chu ch...@llnl.gov Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
