A few vendors have OEM extensions to do a factory reset. I know of them for a few motherboards by Dell and Intel, however if they exist for the motherboards you list below, I don't know them.
Al On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 17:26 -0700, Corey Minyard wrote: > On 04/20/2011 07:18 PM, Daniel Selans wrote: > > Corey, > > > > Thanks for your reply. > > > > If that is the case, is there any way to do a "factory reset" via > > ipmitool or does this fall under proprietary functionality? My issue > > being, once a server is re-used, I'd like to automatically clear any > > previous settings it had (including configured users). While I could > > just loop over all configured users, disable them and just > > 'overwrite' the user id's that I need - I would much prefer a > > "cleaner" solution. > Sorry, there is no "factory reset" function in IPMI. So you have to > clean things up a bit at a time, unfortunately. > > -corey > > > > > Thanks again. > > > > Corey Minyard wrote: > > > You don't really create and delete users in IPMI. You configure > > > user slots. So disabling the user is basically equivalent to > > > deleting it. > > > > > > -corey > > > > > > On 04/20/2011 06:33 PM, Daniel Selans wrote: > > > > Hi list, > > > > > > > > I am having some trouble figuring out how to delete users via > > > > ipmitool (or whether it's even possible). After looking over the > > > > ipmi spec, I wasn't able to find anything that references user > > > > deletion and ipmitool has nothing about this either. Does this > > > > functionality vary from manufacturer to manufacturer? If using > > > > the specific manufacturers web UI, user deletion works without > > > > problems (and 'ipmitool user list 1' shows this to be true too). > > > > > > > > My current test environments are on a Tyan 7002 and Supermicro > > > > 5015A. > > > > > > > > Any hints/ideas/thoughts would be greatly appreciated. > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Daniel Selans | Director of System Integrations > > > > http://www.hostdime.com/ | Hostdime.com, Inc. > > > > O: 407-756-1126 | C: 407-865-2052 > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload > > > > Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top > > > > priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and > > > > improve > > > > application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about > > > > boosting > > > > the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Ipmitool-devel mailing list > > > > Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload > > > Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top > > > priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and > > > improve > > > application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about > > > boosting > > > the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Ipmitool-devel mailing list > > > Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload > > Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top > > priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve > > application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting > > the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
