Configuring IPMI
On the machine you are setting up IPMI on, install the following:
yum install ipmitool.x86_64 OpenIPMI.x86_64 OpenIPMI-devel.x86_64 service ipmi start chkconfig --levels=2345 ipmi on
To see which lan the BMC is listening on, try the following (1-11):
ipmitool lan print 1 ipmitool lan print 2……. etc
For me, it was listening on channel 2. You know when it is not listening on the channel because you’ll see a message like this:
[root@raiders ~]# ipmitool lan print 3 Channel 3 is not a LAN channel
Once you figure out which channel it’s listening on, do the following:
ipmitool lan set 2 ipsrc static → Note that the ‘2’ is the channel the BMC is listening on ipmitool lan set 2 ipaddr 10.10.110.22 → “ “ Also, change the ip address to whatever you are using, obviously ipmitool lan set 2 netmask 255.255.0.0
Check to make sure everything is configured right:
ipmitool lan print 2
The default name and password is usually admin admin for HP’s. To change a password for a user, for example admin, check to see what the user id of admin is by typing:
ipmitool user list 2
When I typed this I saw this:
ID Name Callin Link Auth IPMI Msg Channel Priv Limit 1 true true true USER 2 Operator true true true OPERATOR 3 admin true true true ADMINISTRATOR 4 OEM true true true OEM 5 Operator true true true OPERATOR 6 admin true true true ADMINISTRATOR 7 OEM true true true OEM 8 Operator true true true OPERATOR 9 admin true true true ADMINISTRATOR 10 OEM true true true OEM 11 Operator true true true OPERATOR 12 admin true true true ADMINISTRATOR 13 OEM true true true OEM 14 Operator true true true OPERATOR 15 admin true true true ADMINISTRATOR 16 OEM true true true OEM
This is how I knew that the admin user ID is 3 So to change the password of admin I typed:
ipmitool user set password 3 <New Password> → Note that ‘3’ is the user ID
To add a new user to, say ID 4, and I wanted to change it to ipmiuser:
ipmitool user set name 4 ipmiuser ipmitool user set password 4 <some password> ipmitool user enable 4
To check your configuration type:
ipmitool lan print
This is what my configuration looked like:
[root@blues ~]# ipmitool lan print
Set in Progress : Set Complete
Auth Type Support : NONE MD5 PASSWORD
Auth Type Enable : Callback : NONE MD5 PASSWORD
: User : NONE MD5 PASSWORD
: Operator : NONE MD5 PASSWORD
: Admin : NONE MD5 PASSWORD
: OEM : NONE MD5 PASSWORD
IP Address Source : Static Address
IP Address : 10.10.110.22
Subnet Mask : 255.255.0.0
MAC Address : 00:00:00:c6:de:d9
SNMP Community String : public
IP Header : TTL=0x40 Flags=0x40 Precedence=0x00 TOS=0x10
Default Gateway IP : 0.0.0.0
802.1q VLAN ID : Disabled
802.1q VLAN Priority : 0
RMCP+ Cipher Suites : 0,1,2,3
Cipher Suite Priv Max : OOOOXXXXXXXXXXX
: X=Cipher Suite Unused
: c=CALLBACK
: u=USER
: o=OPERATOR
: a=ADMIN
: O=OEM
Clean up: To clean up the history file (just in case) find the lines where you changed the password, ie:
1010 ipmitool user list 1 1011 ipmitool user set password 2 mypassword 1012 ipmitool lan print 3 1013 history
So using the above scenario, I would delete that line by typing:
history -d 1011
To test it: On another server install ipmitool. To check it:
ipmitool -I lanplus -H 10.10.110.22 -U admin -a chassis power status
I saw:
[root@raiders ~]# ipmitool -I lanplus -H 10.10.110.22 -U admin -a chassis power status Password: Chassis Power is on
Back to IPMI.
For Fawlty: it’s ipmitool -I (capital “eye”)
ipmitool -I lanplus -H 10.10.110.8 -U ADMINISTRATOR -P 7mon8ke9ys bmc info
ipmitool -I lanplus -H 10.10.110.8 -U ADMINISTRATOR -P 7mon8ke9ys chassis power cycle ===> reboot