Hi Al, That solves the problem perfectly. Thanks!
nand On Mon, 08 Feb 2016 10:56:19 -0800, Albert Chu <ch...@llnl.gov> 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 root@foo 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Freeipmi-users mailing list > > Freeipmi-users@gnu.org > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users > > -- > Albert Chu > ch...@llnl.gov > Computer Scientist > High Performance Systems Division > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory > > _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list Freeipmi-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
