Re: [Freeipmi-users] "Connection timed out" error

[Albert Chu]

Hi Dave,

Looking at the ipmitool manpage really quickly, they default to using the
'admin' privilege for most commands while many of the freeipmi tools
default to the 'user' privilege (since some tools like ipmi-sensors,
ipmi-sel do not require a higher privilege).

I'm guessing that's the problem.  Could you perhaps give that a shot?

Thanks,
Al

> I'm a newbie to the world of IPMI and remote management and am trying
> to evaluate FreeIPMI vs ipmitool.  I've downloaded, built and
> installed FreeIPMI v0.3.3 and ipmitool v1.8.9 on a Fedora Core 5
> linux box.  I've been able to successfully query an HP Proliant DL
> 145 server (which supports IPMI 2.0) for a variety of information
> over the server's BMC LAN interface using ipmitool.  However, when
> using the FreeIPMI tools (such as ipmi-sensors) I keep getting the
> following error:
>
> $ sudo ipmi-sensors -D lan -h 192.168.43.133 -u admin -p admin
> ipmi_open_outofband(): Connection timed out
>
> I've tried using the '-vv' verbose option but I'm not seeing anything
> useful.
>
> Just for comparison, here's the result when I use ipmitool:
>
> $ ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.43.133 -U admin -P admin sensor
> ACPI STATE       | 0x0        | discrete   | 0x0100| na        |
> na        | na        | na        | na        | na
> CPU0 Pres        | 0x1        | discrete   | 0x0200| na        |
> na        | na        | na        | na        | na
> CPU1 Pres        | 0x0        | discrete   | 0x0100| na        |
> na        | na        | na        | na        | na
> CPU0 TEMP        | 35.000     | degrees C  | ok    | na        |
> 10.000    | na        | 66.000    | 68.000    | na
> CPU1 TEMP        | na         | degrees C  | na    | na        |
> 10.000    | na        | 66.000    | 68.000    | na
> SYS TEMP         | 23.000     | degrees C  | ok    | na        |
> 10.000    | na        | 43.000    | 45.000    | na
> CPU FAN1         | 6000.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        |
> 3500.000  | 4000.000  | na        | na        | na
> CPU FAN2         | 6000.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        |
> 3500.000  | 4000.000  | na        | na        | na
> CPU FAN3         | 6000.000   | RPM        | ok    | na        |
> 3500.000  | 4000.000  | na        | na        | na
> ....
>
>
> Not sure what I'm doing wrong...I've been through the man pages for
> the various FreeIPMI utilities and nothing is jumping out at me.  If
> anyone can shed any light on what to try next I'd very much
> appreciate it.
>
> Btw, the 'ipmipower', 'ipmiping' and 'rmcpping' utilities all
> work...I'm able to remotely power the machine on and off.   So I'm
> guessing this might be some kind of configuration/authentication
> issue since only the commands that don't require credentials appear
> to work.  May just be a conincidence.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Mike
>
>
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Albert Chu
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