Re: [Freeipmi-users] FreeIPMI does not work with Sun Fire X4200 but IPMItool does?

[nand]

Hi Al,

That solves the problem perfectly. Thanks!

nand

On Mon, 08 Feb 2016 10:56:19 -0800, Albert Chu <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Nand,
> 
> There are several errors in Sun's IPMI implementation that may be
> causing your problem.  In FreeIPMI, they can be worked around with the
> "-w sun20" workaround.  Here's the chunk of text from the manpage for
> details.
> 
>        sun20 - This workaround flag will work work around several Sun IPMI 
> 2.0 authentication issues. The issues covered include invalid
>        lengthed hash keys, improperly hashed keys, and invalid cipher suite 
> records. Those hitting this issue may see "password invalid"
>        or  "bmc error" errors.  Issue observed on Sun Fire 4100/4200/4500 
> with ILOM.  This workaround automatically includes the "opens-
>        esspriv" workaround.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> If that doesn't solve your problems, can you please send me the output
> from --debug.
> 
> Al
> 
> On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 19:46 +0100, nand wrote:
> > Hello freeipmi-users,
> > 
> > I have a Sun Fire X4200 that I am trying to remotely control (via
> > MAAS) using IPMI.
> > 
> > I have changed the root password to ‘example’ for the sake of testing.
> > 
> > 1. ssh login works. (ssh address@hidden and typing in ‘example’ logs me in 
> > and
> >    I can proceed to power the machine on or off)
> > 
> > 2. ipmitool works:
> > 
> >      $ ipmitool -I lanplus -H foo -U root -P example user list
> >      ID  Name             Callin  Link Auth  IPMI Msg   Channel Priv Limit
> >      1                    false   false      true       NO ACCESS
> >      2   root             false   false      true       ADMINISTRATOR
> >      3   maas             true    true       true       ADMINISTRATOR
> >      11  ldapproxy        true    true       true       OPERATOR
> > 
> >    (I can also use ipmitool to power the machine on or off)
> > 
> > 3. freeipmi does not:
> > 
> >      $ ipmipower -D LAN_2_0 -h foo -u root -P example --stat
> >      foo: password invalid
> > 
> >    I have also tested other freeipmi tools such as ipmi-sel with the
> >    same result.
> > 
> > This causes problems because MAAS uses ipmipower and not ipmitool to
> > monitor and control hosts via IPMI.
> > 
> > I tried multiple different passwords, multiple different users, I tried
> > enabling every authentication method via bmc-config, I tried setting the
> > password in different ways (ILOM, bmc-config, ipmitool). I'm at a loss
> > for what else to try.
> > 
> > Do you have any idea what could be going wrong here? Every other host
> > works, it just seems to be this specific machine that's incompatible
> > with freeipmi.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > nand
> > 
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> -- 
> Albert Chu
> address@hidden
> Computer Scientist
> High Performance Systems Division
> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
> 
>