Anyway... not sure what is that for, but did you see the Table 6-1, Channel Number Assignments?
(ipmitool-1.8.11-14.el6_4.1.x86_64) for I in $(seq 0 15); do printf "### Channel %i\n" $I; ipmitool channel info $I; done; ### Channel 0 Channel 0x0 info: Channel Medium Type : IPMB (I2C) Channel Protocol Type : IPMB-1.0 Session Support : session-less Active Session Count : 0 Protocol Vendor ID : 7154 ### Channel 1 Channel 0x1 info: Channel Medium Type : 802.3 LAN Channel Protocol Type : IPMB-1.0 Session Support : multi-session Active Session Count : 1 Protocol Vendor ID : 7154 Volatile(active) Settings Alerting : disabled Per-message Auth : disabled User Level Auth : disabled Access Mode : always available Non-Volatile Settings Alerting : disabled Per-message Auth : disabled User Level Auth : disabled Access Mode : always available ### Channel 2 Channel 0x2 info: Channel Medium Type : Serial/Modem Channel Protocol Type : IPMB-1.0 Session Support : single-session Active Session Count : 0 Protocol Vendor ID : 7154 ### Channel 3 Channel 0x3 info: Channel Medium Type : System Interface Channel Protocol Type : KCS Session Support : session-less Active Session Count : 0 Protocol Vendor ID : 7154 ### Channel 4 Channel 0x4 info: Channel Medium Type : System Interface Channel Protocol Type : KCS Session Support : session-less Active Session Count : 0 Protocol Vendor ID : 7154 ### Channel 5 Channel 0x5 info: Channel Medium Type : System Interface Channel Protocol Type : KCS Session Support : session-less Active Session Count : 0 Protocol Vendor ID : 7154 ### Channel 6 Get Channel Info failed: Invalid data field in request ### Channel 7 Get Channel Info failed: Invalid data field in request ### Channel 8 Get Channel Info failed: Invalid data field in request ### Channel 9 Get Channel Info failed: Invalid data field in request ### Channel 10 Get Channel Info failed: Invalid data field in request ### Channel 11 Get Channel Info failed: Invalid data field in request ### Channel 12 Get Channel Info failed: Invalid data field in request ### Channel 13 Get Channel Info failed: Invalid data field in request ### Channel 14 Channel 0x4 info: Channel Medium Type : System Interface Channel Protocol Type : KCS Session Support : session-less Active Session Count : 0 Protocol Vendor ID : 7154 ### Channel 15 Channel 0xf info: Channel Medium Type : System Interface Channel Protocol Type : KCS Session Support : session-less Active Session Count : 0 Protocol Vendor ID : 7154 slightly modified command (ipmitool-1.8.12-13073104.fc18.x86_64) for I in $(seq 0 15); do printf "### Channel %i\n" $I; ipmitool -H ... -U ... -P ... channel info $I; done ### Channel 0 Channel 0x0 info: Channel Medium Type : IPMB (I2C) Channel Protocol Type : IPMB-1.0 Session Support : session-less Active Session Count : 0 Protocol Vendor ID : 7154 ### Channel 1 Channel 0x1 info: Channel Medium Type : 802.3 LAN Channel Protocol Type : IPMB-1.0 Session Support : multi-session Active Session Count : 2 Protocol Vendor ID : 7154 Volatile(active) Settings Alerting : disabled Per-message Auth : disabled User Level Auth : disabled Access Mode : always available Non-Volatile Settings Alerting : disabled Per-message Auth : disabled User Level Auth : disabled Access Mode : always available ### Channel 2 Channel 0x2 info: Channel Medium Type : Serial/Modem Channel Protocol Type : IPMB-1.0 Session Support : single-session Active Session Count : 0 Protocol Vendor ID : 7154 ### Channel 3 Channel 0x3 info: Channel Medium Type : System Interface Channel Protocol Type : KCS Session Support : session-less Active Session Count : 0 Protocol Vendor ID : 7154 ### Channel 4 Channel 0x4 info: Channel Medium Type : System Interface Channel Protocol Type : KCS Session Support : session-less Active Session Count : 0 Protocol Vendor ID : 7154 ### Channel 5 Channel 0x5 info: Channel Medium Type : System Interface Channel Protocol Type : KCS Session Support : session-less Active Session Count : 0 Protocol Vendor ID : 7154 ### Channel 6 Get Channel Info failed: Invalid data field in request ### Channel 7 Get Channel Info failed: Invalid data field in request ### Channel 8 Get Channel Info failed: Invalid data field in request ### Channel 9 Get Channel Info failed: Invalid data field in request ### Channel 10 Get Channel Info failed: Invalid data field in request ### Channel 11 Get Channel Info failed: Invalid data field in request ### Channel 12 Get Channel Info failed: Invalid data field in request ### Channel 13 Get Channel Info failed: Invalid data field in request ### Channel 14 Channel 0x1 info: Channel Medium Type : 802.3 LAN Channel Protocol Type : IPMB-1.0 Session Support : multi-session Active Session Count : 2 Protocol Vendor ID : 7154 Volatile(active) Settings Alerting : disabled Per-message Auth : disabled User Level Auth : disabled Access Mode : always available Non-Volatile Settings Alerting : disabled Per-message Auth : disabled User Level Auth : disabled Access Mode : always available ### Channel 15 Channel 0xf info: Channel Medium Type : System Interface Channel Protocol Type : KCS Session Support : session-less Active Session Count : 0 Protocol Vendor ID : 7154 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zdenek Styblik" <zdenek.styb...@gmail.com> To: "ipmitool-devel" <ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, September 6, 2013 5:55:30 AM Subject: [Ipmitool-devel] help needed - "ipmitool channel info" output Hello, please, can somebody send me output of the following command: for I in $(seq 0 15); do printf "### Channel %i\n" $I; ipmitool channel info $I; done; Many thanks in advance, Z. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! 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