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IPMI means "Intelligent Platform Management Interface". It is a standardized interface for out of band management. This tag should be used for questions related to development software providing IPMI functionality. Questions about management are off-topic for StackOverflow.

IPMI standard defines interface that allows controlling and monitoring hardware regardless of its current state, installed OS, network configuration... The mechanism is based in management controller (MC) that is not dependent on main CPU. MC may run even if the main system (and its CPUs) is powered off. IPMI commands can be transported over UDP/IP and over HW buses like SMBus and RS-232.

See more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface

The questions asked here should be focused on software development that is related to IPMI. Questions about using IPMI tools and monitored hardware can be asked at https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/ipmi

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how to change ipmi user with one command

i want to change existing user password. i ran this command ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.1.1 -U USER -P 'PASSWORD' user set password 10 "&UJM2wsx" i got an error IPMI command failed: Request data field length limit exceeded Set User Password…
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Unable to connect to IPMI interface from same server where IPMI is

I have a rack with Supermicro servers each with IPMI interface. I am able to connect to any IPMI web/cli interface from my notebook. I am also able to ping any IPMI interface from any Supermicro server except the Supermicro server, where the IPMI…
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changing supermicro bios settings using a script via serial port

I was wondering how can I write a script that automatically changes bios settings. I was looking all over how to write such script but haven't found one yet. My main goal is from a Linux machine to run putty or Minicom to update the settings that I…
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How to monitor the output of IPMI SOL for a particular word, then echo a phrase?

I am trying to find a way to monitor IPMI SOL output for a particular word/phrase, then echo something. Basically, I am wanting to create a script that can be passed a list of server names, will loop through each of them, open an IPMI SOL session,…
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I just want to print the PowerUsage of my system in a python script. My script is part of a monitoring script. and i get the error > def getPowerUsage(self): …
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Which OSI layer does IPMI belong to?

I understand that IPMI is a way of communicating to the BMC onbard from an external world. And this communication is possible via IPMI which is a secure protocol to talk to these devices. But Im confused as to which OSI layer does the IPMI exactly…
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Python pyghmi (IPMI) unable to connect to server

I've been trying to get SaltStack to work with IPMI, looking at the source code I see the ipmi module uses pythons pyghmi, no matter what I try I always get the following error: Insufficient resources to create new session (wait for existing…
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IPMI: How to find the threshold values using ipmimonitoring-sensors.c

I am writing an API to report IPMI hardware information queried by a Socket Daemon, the Socket Daemon is hosting on a client, and a remote server will send command to query the host hardware status. I've successfully write an API, the API use…
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IPMI: snum vs id

I'm using ipmiutils to look at a device and I see there is an ID column and an SNUM column. I've scanned the IPMI specification (it's huge -- just scanned) and the ipmiutils docs but can't find exactly what these mean. Is one or the other stable,…
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IPMI password authentication

I don't see the option of PASSWORD authentication at my IPMI channel 1 settings output. I even tried factory reset. Can you please let me know how I can enable the password authentication. $ipmitool lan print 1 Auth Type Support : MD2 MD5…
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How to write entry into the System Event Log (SEL) via ipmitool?

I see in the ipmitool there is an "add" command in the sel menu. It wants a file, but what format for that file is it expecting? > ipmitool sel add file.txt > Invalid Event: 0000f8b601000000 From the doc: http://man.he.net/man1/ipmitool add …
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Asus IPMI Expansion Card not working on Debian

I purchased a Pro WS W680-ACE IPMI motherboard from ASUS and installed Debian and was prompted with the following when booting up the system. [ 1.898422] usb 1-13.4: device descriptor read/64, error -32 [ 2.086248] usb 1-13.4: device…
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ipmi open sol, but the remote console cannot be displayed

[SOL Session operational. Use ~? for help] Keep telling me this. How do we solve it? ipmitool -I lanplus -H $ip -U $username -P $passwd sol deactivate How to solve it? Did a lot of digging and didn't find anything relevant.
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How to load FRU data in the ipmisim1.emu

I am trying to load FRU data in the ipmisim1.emu using this command in the file: mc_add_fru_data 0x20 0 528 file /etc/ipmi/ibm-m3.bin but it doesn't work because I don't know what is the offset for the FRU ID=0. If I replace the line above…
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ipmitool command "Get device ID" invalid

Im using "ipmitool -b 6 -t 0x2c raw 6 1" this command in host，but it show two errors "unable to send command:invalid argument" and "unable to send raw command" . However ，this command worked successfully in bmc. Is there any step i do wrong or any…
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