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Supermicro ESXi 5 IPMIView - cant connect to the set IP

So I start from the very beginning: I have a Supermicro X8DT3 running with ESXi 5 which is a host for a VM (old hardware, just for test purposes). Since I'm quite a noob regarding all this, I wanted to train and learn. I installed the Supermicro…
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BMC TrueSight Architecture Questions & Review

I have been preparing for a TrueSight deployment for some time now but would like to share my high level architecture with everyone and get some feedback as well as some questions I would like to solidify before continuing. The requirements in our…
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Multiple IPMI message bridging interpretations

Let's say I would like to send Get Device Id command from LAN channel to IPMB channel via BMC with message tracking, I need to go through those steps: Encapsulate Get Device Id command in Send Message command Send Send Message command from LAN to…
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Accessing IPMI address

Currently if I want to know the server IPMI address, I will have to go to the SBIOS and check under BMC. Is there a way to get the IPMI address from inside a virtual machine ?
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Dell BMC (Baseband Management Controller) on shared LAN, performance hit? static IP?

I am thinking of using Dell's BMC on some servers that we house at a datacenter to ease remote monitoring/administration in the event of failures. I have some questions: It appears that I can configure BMC to use the same LAN that I plan to use for…
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Lenovo ThinkServer RD440 Remote KVM not working

I've got two ThinkServer RD440 servers and equipped them with the extension to use KVM via BMC Web interface. But it's not completely working: When starting the server I can send the F1 key to enter setup via the Java console, but then in BIOS no…
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Can Redfish be used to wipe hard drives

I am wondering if can Redfish (Dell or Lenovo) be used to format/wipe clean hard drives. I haven't been able to find any examples. If it's not possible, what is the alternative approach other than Refish to accomplish this? Thank you.
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Through the ssif interface, ipmi_poweoff cannot be used normally

I am testing a server with arm architecture. When testing the ipmi function, I found that ipmi_poweroff cannot be used normally. Debugging found that the function was stuck in the while loop in ipmi_request_in_rc_mode . When calling the poll method…
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What is SHTDN_REASON_MINOR_HUNG

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/shutdown/system-shutdown-reason-codes I got this code: SHTDN_REASON_MINOR_HUNG 0x00000005 Unresponsive. What caused Unresponsive? ( kernel? application ? driver ? hardware? )
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location of ipmitool info?

Does anyone know how to get this exact information through the command line/ipmitool vice this page. Can't seem to locate it... I'm even trying to scrape the page (but that is a whole struggle of a lesson itself)... any, even wild, ideas would be…
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ASRock Rack X570D4U IPMI login failed after password change

I upgraded my servers mainboard to a ASRock Rack X570D4U. When i opened the IPMI web interface I logged in with admin/admin. The web interface asked me to change my password. I generated a 24 char long password with letters, numbers and special…
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Reset ASMB8 BMC Credentials

I just got a server from a client and I need to reset the BMC credentials. I have an external KVM connected, I can access the BIOS and set the network address for the BMC, but I can't find a place to reset the credentials. I also have access to the…
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Supermicro BMC IPMI - How to get hardware specs without OS access

This is my first post in Serverfault for the purpose of trying to get the hardware specs for our supermicro 1U rack server so here it goes: I have downloaded the IPMIView, IPMICFG, and SMCIPMI utilities ->…
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Unable to get access IMPI / BIOS / Intel Xeon Gen2 compatibility issue?

I've bought new( not used ) SuperMicro MBD-X11DPI and x2 - Intel Xeon Silver 4210R OEM Micron [MTA72ASS8G72PSZ-2S6E1] 64Gb Samsung [M393A8G40MB2-CTD] 64Gb When I'm booting, 10 different combinations of 2xCPU and different RAM modules give me…
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How can a Centre get server's hardware information by IPMI address?

I find there is a way to automated hardware information collection. but what's the principle ? why the Centre know a Server's IPMI address then it can get the Server's hardware information? Is there any protocol of BMC to provide this function?
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