Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmiping newbie question

[Rene Salmon]

Hi,

Making some progress here.  I can now use bmc-config out of band the 
option that finally worked was:

> bmc-config -h 192.168.0.11 -u admin -p xxx -l ADMIN -o

You where correct I need to specify the ADMIN privilege level.
No I can get the IPMI settings to a file edit them and then update the 
remote node!!!

Next I need to do two things first test the ipmipower make sure i can do 
that and last Serial over lan.

Got stuck on the first one.  I tried just getting the power status of 
the remote node and got this:

/home/rsalmon> ipmipower -h 192.168.0.11 -u admin -p xxx -s
192.168.0.11: bmc error
/home/rsalmon> ipmipower -h 192.168.0.11 -u admin -p xxx -l ADMIN -s
192.168.0.11: bmc error
/home/rsalmon> ipmipower -h 192.168.0.11 -s
192.168.0.11: off

So it seems to get the power status when run as user NULL.  But Then I 
can't power up the node because of a privilege issue:

/home/rsalmon> ipmipower -h 192.168.0.11 --on
192.168.0.11: permission denied
/home/rsalmon> ipmipower -h 192.168.0.11 -u admin -p xxx -l ADMIN --on
192.168.0.11: bmc error
/home/rsalmon> ipmipower -h 192.168.0.11 -u admin -p xxx --on
192.168.0.11: bmc error

From the man pages it looks like "-u admin" should work:

-u, --username name
Sets the username to use when authenticating with the BMC. The user must 
have operator or administrator privilege to run the `--on', `--off', 
`--reset', `--cycle', `--pulse', or `--soft' power control commands. The 
user needs only user privileges to determine the status of the machine 
through `--stat'. If not specified, a null username (Anonymous Login 
`User ID 1') is assumed.


any ideas?

Thanks
Rene








Albert Chu wrote:
> Hey Rene,
>
> Could you try passing the privilege option -p admin to bmc-config?  
>
> Note to A.B. & Bala, the fact that bmc-config typically rquires admin
> privileges (unlike ipmipower, ipmi-sensors, etc) should probably be
> noted in the manpage.  Or perhaps defaulted to inside bmc-config??
ng and rmcpping must send a packet



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