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IPMI management of a local system interface requires a compatible IPMI kernel driver to be installed
and configured. On Linux, this driver is called
OpenIPMI
and it is included in standard distributions. On
Solaris, this driver is called
BMC
and is inclued in Solaris 10. Management of a remote station requires
the IPMI-over-LAN interface to be enabled and configured. Depending on the particular requirements of
each system, it may be possible to enable the LAN interface using
ipmitool
over the system interface.
OPTIONS
-a
Prompt for the remote server password.
-A
<
authtype
>
Specify an authentication type to use during IPMIv1.5
lan
session activation. Supported types
are NONE, PASSWORD, MD5, or OEM.
-c
Present output in CSV (comma separated variable) format. This is not available with all
commands.
-C
<
ciphersuite
>
The remote server authentication, integrity, and encryption algorithms to use for IPMIv2
lanplus
connections. See table 22-19 in the IPMIv2 specification. The default is 3 which specifies RAKP-
HMAC-SHA1 authentication, HMAC-SHA1-96 integrity, and AES-CBC-128 encryption algorightms.
-E
The remote server password is specified by the environment variable
IPMI_PASSWORD
.
-f
<
password_file
>
Specifies a file containing the remote server password. If this option is absent, or if
password_file is empty, the password will default to NULL.
-h
Get basic usage help from the command line.
-H
<
address
>
Remote server address, can be IP address or hostname. This option is required for
lan
and
lanplus
interfaces.
-I
<
interface
>
Selects IPMI interface to use. Supported interfaces that are compiled in are visible in the usage
help output.
-L
<
privlvl
>
Force session privilege level. Can be CALLBACK, USER, OPERATOR, ADMIN. Default is ADMIN.
-m
<
local_address
>
Set the local IPMB address. The default is 0x20 and there should be no need to change it for
normal operation.
-o
<
oemtype
>
Select OEM type to support. This usually involves minor hacks in place in the code to work
around quirks in various BMCs from various manufacturers. Use
-o list
to see a list of current
supported OEM types.
-p
<
port
>
Remote server UDP port to connect to. Default is 623.
-P
<
password
>
Remote server password is specified on the command line. If supported it will be obscured in
the process list.
Note!
Specifying the password as a command line option is not recommended.
-t
<
target_address
>
Bridge IPMI requests to the remote target address.
-U
<
username
>
Remote server username, default is NULL user.