A command-line interface for devices with IPMI enabled.
Questions tagged [ipmitool]
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Detect Supermicro DIMM (memory) errors as reported during POST without rebooting
One of our Supermicro servers reports an error like this during POST:
Failing DIMM: DIMM location (Correctable memory component found)
DIMMB2
I can also see this in the Health Event Log in the IPMI web interface:
Failing DIMM: DIMM location.…

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Setting Asset Tag (Overriding board_asset_tag)
I am trying to set Asset Tag for DELL server(From Machine1 to Machine2). I have tried the following options
ipmitool dcmi set_asset_tag Machine2
This doesnt seem to set the asset tag. When i try to get the asset tag info via ifru command, I get…

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Using IPMItool to set system shutdown on upper critical temperature
x-post with Stack Overflow (which I'm now beginning to think was a mistake)
I've been digging quite a bit into IPMItool commands and have yet to find a comprehensive list of raw hex commands. We have approximately 90 Dell C6220 II machines that I…

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ipmitool change bios product id on hp dl160 gen8
I got quite a few HP DL160 Gen8's that I need to change the product ID for since they've received new system boards due to a manufacturing fault and we're trying to keep track of which boards went through which revision (we have 3 different…

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ipmi_si module is missing and can't be found
Looked all over google and stackoverflow; can't find an answer to this "simple" problem.
Background: I have a Supermicro server running centos 6.5 kernal 2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.x86_64. I have been trying to configure IPMI, and after much…

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Unattended Linux installation from PXE using IPMI
This is what I have:
Kickstart server with multiple Linux distros on it.
Multiple Supermicro server machines I'm connecting using IPMI.
What I need:
I need some way to run unattended installation of the particular Linux distro on particular server…

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What do these IPMI System Event Logs mean?
I'm currently trying to troubleshoot what seem to be hardware issues with a x3650 m3 machine. Using IPMItools, I'm reading recurring assertion events from sensor type: 0F, sensor no: B5 that repeat the following:
Firmware Progress C2 00 FF
Firmware…

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IPMI sensor data retrieve from HP Superdome (sx2000) with IPMI tool
i'm trying to extract data sensor from a HP Superdome (sx2000) using the protocol IPMI over LAN. I enabled the IPMI protocol and i setup the password for IPMI protocol on the Superdome.
I'm using ipmiutil tool as IPMI client,the client is connected…

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IPMI sdr entity 8 (memory module) only showing 3 records?
I've got two Dell PE R710's -
A has a single socket and 3 DIMMs in one bank
B has both sockets and 6 (2 banks @ 3 DIMMs) filled
The output from "ipmitool sdr entity 8" confuses me - according to the
OpenIPMI documentation these are supposed to…

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Is it possible to restart a supermicro kvm with ipmitool? (the kvm not the server)
The KVM on my supermicro motherboard seems to have crashed or is otherwise not answering network requests on it's assigned IP address. I need to try to restart the KVM (not the server). Is this possible to do with the ipmitool utility from inside…

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SuperMicro BMC on OpenSuSE Linux --cannot access from LAN
I have an (old) SMC-001 IPMI device on an (old) X6DVL-EG2 motherboard. My problem is that I cannot access the BMC from LAN. I'm also getting some interesting output from ipmitool.
First, the setup. I enable Console Redirection in the BIOS, turn…

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Remote restart server by ipmitool
I can't restart remote server with ipmi.
I use ipmitool -U user -P password -H ip -I lan chassis cycle, also I tried power reset e.t.c, but ipmitools answers Get HPM.x Capabilities request failed, comcode = d4 Chassis Power Control: Reset and the…

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Fujitsu IPMI fan speed control
My goal is to reduce the noise and save a little bit of power of my Fujitsu Primergy RX300 S6.
I am using Proxmox as my OS and already installed "ipmitool" which works great for reading sensor data.
I tried following this…

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What is the time limit for IPMI soft reboot timeout to revert to hard reboot?
Using frucontrol you can specify a soft reboot ipmi request with the command
ipmitool picmg frucontrol 0 2
Where the "2" at the end indicates a reboot, as opposed to a "0" which indicates a power off.
When you issue the command it will "ask" the OS…
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What is the ipmitool "Auth Type"?
What's the meaning of Auth Type Support: NONE MD2 MD5 PASSWORD and Auth Type Enable : Callback : MD2 MD5 PASSWORD?
When I use lan print 1 in my server, ipmitool shows the following output:
[root@localhost ~]# ipmitool -I open lan print 1
Set in…

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