Re: [Freeipmi-users] OK, i give...

[Albert Chu]

Hi Karl,

Whoops, I didn't answer the second half of your e-mail.

>    Commit Section <User2> Key <Username> Value <Operator> FAILED
>    Commit Section <User3> Key <Username> Value <Administrator> FAILED
>    Commit Section <User4> Key <Username> Value <CallBack> FAILED
>    Commit Section <Misc> Key <Power_Restore_Policy> Value 
> <Off_State_Ac_Apply> FAILED

Some BMCs do not offer the ability to configure every field.  It may be
that your BMC does not allow you to change the usernames, but apparently
you can change fields related to the username.  Likewise with the
Power_Restore_Policy.  What system are you doing this on?

Al

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Albert Chu
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High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory


----- Original Message -----
From: Karl Hanzel <address@hidden>
Date: Thursday, December 1, 2005 3:30 pm
Subject: [Freeipmi-users] OK, i give...

> I'm interested in using 'ipmipower' to control the up/down'ness of 
> a host.
> Of course there must be some form of authentication/authorization 
> involved, but it's not immediately obvious how to set this up.
> 
> How does one set a user/password witm bmc-config?  Or am i barking 
> up the 
> wrong tree?
> 
> If i simply do a
> 
>    bmc-config --checkout --filename=/tmp/tmp
> 
> followed immediately (no editing of /tmp/tmp) by a
> 
>   bmc-config --commit --filename=/tmp/tmp
> 
> i get the following output:
> 
>    Commit Section <User2> Key <Username> Value <Operator> FAILED
>    Commit Section <User3> Key <Username> Value <Administrator> FAILED
>    Commit Section <User4> Key <Username> Value <CallBack> FAILED
>    Commit Section <Misc> Key <Power_Restore_Policy> Value 
> <Off_State_Ac_Apply> FAILED
> 
> which doesn't seem very promising.
> 
> 
> Thanks for any tips.  I feel like i'm pioneering here.
> 
> 
> Karl
> *---->
> 
> 
> Karl Hanzel
> UCAR/COMET Systems Administrator
> Boulder, Colorado
> (303)497-8479
> address@hidden
> 
> 
> 
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