Alexander Dupuy wrote: > I wrote: > >> The solution is to disable the IPMI-over-serial-port support on the BMC >> (the problem is that the login prompt from Linux - or any other output >> to the serial port - is interpreted as IPMI commands, for which an error >> is generated, which generates more output from Linux, ad infinitum). > > > David Sparks asked: > >> Does anyone know how to do this with plain IPMI (preferably ipmitool)? >> > > > On a 2950, I see that the ipmitool channel command might be able to do > this, although it's not entirely clear: > > > # ipmitool channel help > Channel Commands: authcap <channel number> <max privilege> > getaccess <channel number> [user id] > setaccess <channel number> <user id> [callin=on|off] > [ipmi=on|off] [link=on|off] [privilege=level] > info [channel number] > getciphers <ipmi | sol> [channel] > > Possible privilege levels are: > 1 Callback level > 2 User level > 3 Operator level > 4 Administrator level > 5 OEM Proprietary level > 15 No access > # ipmitool channel info 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 > # ipmitool channel getaccess 2 2 > Maximum User IDs : 10 > Enabled User IDs : 1 > > User ID : 2 > User Name : root > Fixed Name : No > Access Available : call-in / callback > Link Authentication : enabled > IPMI Messaging : enabled > Privilege Level : ADMINISTRATOR > # ipmitool channel setaccess 2 2 callin=off link=off ipmi=off privilege=15 > # ipmitool channel getaccess 2 2 > Maximum User IDs : 10 > Enabled User IDs : 1 > > User ID : 2 > User Name : root > Fixed Name : No > Access Available : callback > Link Authentication : disabled > IPMI Messaging : disabled > Privilege Level : NO ACCESS
I set the above parameters to disabled and NO ACCESS as per your email but that didn't fix the bogus logins. > I suspect that you will have more luck using the (better, IMHO) ipmiutil > toolset, specifically the tmconfig (a.k.a ipmiutil serial) command: > > # ipmiutil serial -d # or tmconfig -d These commands didn't work either. Please, can anyone from Dell comment on how to shut this off? Is there even a BIOS option to disable this (other than "reset to defaults")? Thanks! ds _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
