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A command-line interface for devices with IPMI enabled.

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IPMITool complains that /dev/ipmi0 doesn't exist, when it does

On my Ubuntu 16.04 server (Asrock E3C224D2I), I can't run ipmitool. It complains that it Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory. Output of ls /dev/ipmi*: # ls /dev/ipmi* /dev/ipmi0 Output of…
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HP BL460c Gen8 Product name change

After replacing the system board in a HP BL460c Gen8 Server blade,the Product name had changed from "Proliant BL460c Gen8" to "StoreEasy3830 Gtwy Blade". This is some thing that you can not change in BIOS settings. I believe both products use the…
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Dell PowerEdge 1950 Gen II - BCM Fan Speed Issue

Please see Update 1 hereunder for an update I would like to lower the fan speed of what I consider an optimized in terms of efficiency Dell PowerEdge 1950 Gen II having two quad core Xeon E5335 cpus and 32GB (4x8GB) of RAM running Ubuntu 16.04…
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Retrieving blade/chassis (HP C7k) information from within the host through IPMI

On an HP C7000 blade enclosure with standard DL385's with up to date ILO2 (2.29); local (and remote) IPMI works splendidly for getting the usual temperatures, mac addresses, access to the console; boot options, power and so on. However I'd like to…
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FreeIPMI (ipmi-sensors) not displaying PROC/MEM sensors from HP servers

I am trying to monitor our physical hardware using FreeIPMI, specifically I want to be alerted on processor, memory, power supply, and disk failures for our IBM, DELL, and HP servers. Running ipmi-sensors -h -u -p -D LAN_2_0…
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ipmitool not functioning the same after upgrade to 14.04

I currently have a se7501br2 motherboard that functions in a server running ubuntu 14.04. I have recently update to 14.04 from 12.04. Before this upgrade, I was able to use "ipmitool sensor" to get a readout of processor temperature, fan speed,…
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IPMI web management on Supermicro not working: "Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0:..." and "Invalid Channel 255"

Troubleshooting an IPMI issue on a centos 6.5 server. Specifically, I am not able to set up IPMI web management due to errors when trying to work with IPMI LAN settings. I get the following error when I type ipmitool lan print: [root@]# ipmitool…
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Silence alarm via IPMI

I have an old Intel SC5400 based server with an Intel S5000PSL board with redundant power running CentOS 6. One of the power supplies has failed and I would like to silence the alarm temporarily. Is there a way to silence the alarm via IPMI or…
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ipmitool pef temperature soft shutdown

Recently I've had the technicians switch off the cooling system in the server room, without notifying me first. Since the compute nodes do have IPMI cards from different manufacturers installed, I'd like to simply configure via ipmitool a threshold…
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Power management over IPMI and HP iLO2

I tried to reboot server over IPMI and the integrated service processor/BMC. It worked for IBM server with an Integrated Management Module (IMM), but failed with HP iLO2 (FW v2.05). I used ipmiutil.exe for Windows so far and would be able to use…
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Configuring SuperMicro IPMI to use syslog via SMCIPMITool?

Is there a way to use the IPMITool (I'm running version 2.26.0) to remotely configure the syslog settings of an IPMI interface? I have a few dozen new systems and would prefer to not do this manually.
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"ipmitool chassis bootdev" command fails with command disabled

On a Lenovo System x3550 M5, running ipmitool chassis bootdev command fails with Set Chassis Boot Parameter 4 failed: Cannot execute command, command disabled eg: % ipmitool chassis bootdev pxe options=efiboot Set Chassis Boot Parameter 4 failed:…
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Supermicro ipmi dcmi privileges

Recently we tried to monitor supermicro's servers power consumption. And got this error: ipmitool -I lanplus -U readonly_user -H ip_address -P password dcmi power reading -L user DCMI request failed because: Insufficient privilege level (d4) If we…
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IPMI password works for SSH but not HTTP

What I want to do I want to log in to IPMI through the web interface. The motherboard is from Supermicro and the product name is X11DPG-QT. I am able to access the login webpage, but I get the error message: "Invalid Username or Password". However,…
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Is there a way to find CPU power use specifically?

I have a few nodes running CentOS 7.6. With DCMI and ipmitool, I can obtain the power use of the entire node. Is there any way to determine how much power is being used by a CPU alone, preferably without root privileges?
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