,----[ Karl Hanzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] | 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? `---- I usually try with simple or no authentication to get the basic IPMI working. Then experiment with advanced options.
There is a tool in CVS called bmc-autoconfig which has a curses dialog wizard which helps you easily configure the BMC. Other options are - I can send you a simple bmc.conf file. - Give us remote access - Bring us the system, we will configure it for you. ,----[ Karl Hanzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] | | 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 `---- This means, * your BMC supports one "anonymous" user only, which is mandatory according to IPMI spec. Otherwise the BMC vendor may choose to implement up to 4. Anonymous user has no user name (blank). * Off_State_Ac_Apply not supported. Seems OK. Use anonymous userid only. It will help, if you please let us know your motherboard, output of bmc-info and "bmc-config -o". Happy Hacking, -- Anand Babu GPG Key ID: 0x62E15A31 Blog [http://ab.freeshell.org] The GNU Operating System [http://www.gnu.org] _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
