ipmitool - utility for controlling IPMI-enabled devices

ipmitool [-c|-h|-v|-V] -I open <command>

ipmitool [-c|-h|-v|-V] -I lan -H <hostname> [-p <port>] [-U <username>] [-A <authtype>] [-L <privlvl>] [-a|-E|-P|-f <password>] [-o <oemtype>] <command>

ipmitool [-c|-h|-v|-V] -I lanplus -H <hostname> [-p <port>] [-U <username>] [-L <privlvl>] [-a|-E|-P|-f <password>] [-o <oemtype>] [-C <ciphersuite>] <command>

This program lets you manage Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) functions of either the local system, via a kernel device driver, or a remote system, using IPMI V1.5 and IPMI v2.0. These functions include printing FRU information, LAN configuration, sensor readings, and remote chassis power control.

IPMI management of a local system interface requires a compatible IPMI kernel driver to be installed and configured. On Linux this driver is called OpenIPMI and it is included in standard distributions. On Solaris this driver is called BMC and is inclued in Solaris 10. Management of a remote station requires the IPMI-over-LAN interface to be enabled and configured. Depending on the particular requirements of each system it may be possible to enable the LAN interface using ipmitool over the system interface.

-a

Prompt for the remote server password.

-A <authtype>

Specify an authentication type to use during IPMIv1.5 lan session activation. Supported types are NONE, PASSWORD, MD5, or OEM.

-c

Present output in CSV (comma separated variable) format. This is not available with all commands.

-C <ciphersuite>

The remote server authentication, integrity, and encryption algorithms to use for IPMIv2 lanplus connections. See table 22-19 in the IPMIv2 specification. The default is 3 which specifies RAKP-HMAC-SHA1 authentication, HMAC-SHA1-96 integrity, and AES-CBC-128 encryption algorightms.

-E

The remote server password is specified by the environment variable IPMI_PASSWORD.

-f <password_file>

Specifies a file containing the remote server password. If this option is absent, or if password_file is empty, the password will default to NULL.

-h

Get basic usage help from the command line.

-H <address>

Remote server address, can be IP address or hostname. This option is required for lan and lanplus interfaces.

-I <interface>

Selects IPMI interface to use. Supported interfaces that are compiled in are visible in the usage help output.

-L <privlvl>

Force session privilege level. Can be CALLBACK, USER, OPERATOR, ADMIN. Default is ADMIN.

-m <local_address>

Set the local IPMB address. The default is 0x20 and there should be no need to change it for normal operation.

-o <oemtype>

Select OEM type to support. This usually involves minor hacks in place in the code to work around quirks in various BMCs from various manufacturers. Use -o list to see a list of current supported OEM types.

-p <port>

Remote server UDP port to connect to. Default is 623.

-P <password>

Remote server password is specified on the command line. If supported it will be obscured in the process list. Note! Specifying the password as a command line option is not recommended.

-S <sdr_cache_file>

Use local file for remote SDR cache. Using a local SDR cache can drastically increase performance for commands that require knowledge of the entire SDR to perform their function. Local SDR cache from a remote system can be created with the sdr dump command.

-t <target_address>

Bridge IPMI requests to the remote target address.

-U <username>

Remote server username, default is NULL user.

-v

Increase verbose output level. This option may be specified multiple times to increase the level of debug output. If given three times you will get hexdumps of all incoming and outgoing packets.

-V

Display version information.

If no password method is specified then ipmitool will prompt the user for a password. If no password is entered at the prompt, the remote server password will default to NULL.

There are several security issues be be considered before enabling the IPMI LAN interface. A remote station has the ability to control a system's power state as well as being able to gather certain platform information. To reduce vulnerability it is strongly advised that the IPMI LAN interface only be enabled in 'trusted' environments where system security is not an issue or where there is a dedicated secure 'management network'.

Further it is strongly advised that you should not enable IPMI for remote access without setting a password, and that that password should not be the same as any other password on that system.

When an IPMI password is changed on a remote machine with the IPMIv1.5 lan interface the new password is sent across the network as clear text. This could be observed and then used to attack the remote system. It is thus recommended that IPMI password management only be done over IPMIv2.0 lanplus interface or the system interface on the local station.

For IPMI v1.5, the maximum password length is 16 characters. Passwords longer than 16 characters will be truncated.

For IPMI v2.0, the maximum password length is 20 characters; longer passwords are truncated.

help

This can be used to get command-line help on ipmitool commands. It may also be placed at the end of commands to get option usage help.

ipmitool help

Commands: raw Send a RAW IPMI request and print response lan Configure LAN Channels chassis Get chassis status and set power state event Send events to MC mc Management Controller status and global enables sdr Print Sensor Data Repository entries and readings sensor Print detailed sensor information fru Print built-in FRU and scan for FRU locators sel Print System Event Log (SEL) pef Configure Platform Event Filtering (PEF) sol Configure IPMIv2.0 Serial-over-LAN isol Configure IPMIv1.5 Serial-over-LAN user Configure Management Controller users channel Configure Management Controller channels session Print session information sunoem Manage Sun OEM Extensions exec Run list of commands from file set Set runtime variable for shell and exec

ipmitool chassis help

Chassis Commands: status, power, identify, policy, restart_cause, poh, bootdev

ipmitool chassis power help

chassis power Commands: status, on, off, cycle, reset, diag, soft

bmc|mc

reset <warm|cold>

Instructs the BMC to perform a warm or cold reset.

guid

Display the Management Controller Globally Unique IDentifier.

info

Displays information about the BMC hardware, including device revision, firmware revision, IPMI version supported, manufacturer ID, and information on additional device support.

getenables

Displays a list of the currently enabled options for the BMC.

setenables <option>=[on|off]

Enables or disables the given option. This command is only supported over the system interface according to the IPMI specification. Currently supported values for option include:

recv_msg_intr

Receive Message Queue Interrupt

event_msg_intr

Event Message Buffer Full Interrupt

event_msg

Event Message Buffer

system_event_log

System Event Logging

oem0

OEM-Defined option #0

oem1

OEM-Defined option #1

oem2

OEM-Defined option #2

channel

authcap <channel number> <max priv>

Displays information about the authentication capabilities of the selected channel at the specified privilege level.

Possible privilege levels are:

1 Callback level

2 User level

3 Operator level

4 Administrator level

5 OEM Proprietary level

info [channel number]

Displays information about the selected channel. If no channel is given it will display information about the currently used channel:

> ipmitool channel info

Channel 0xf info:

Channel Medium Type : System Interface

Channel Protocol Type : KCS

Session Support : session-less

Active Session Count : 0

Protocol Vendor ID : 7154

getaccess <channel number> [<userid>]

Configure the given userid as the default on the given channel number. When the given channel is subsequently used, the user is identified implicitly by the given userid.

setaccess <channel number> <userid> [<callin=on|off>]

[<ipmi=on|off>] [<link=on|off>] [<privilege=level>]

Configure user access information on the given channel for the given userid.

getciphers <all|supported> <ipmi|sol> [<channel>]

Displays the list of cipher suites supported for the given application (ipmi or sol) on the given channel.

chassis

status

Displays information regarding the high-level status of the system chassis and main power subsystem.

poh

This command will return the Power-On Hours counter.

identify <interval>

Control the front panel identify light. Default is 15. Use 0 to turn off.

restart_cause

Query the chassis for the cause of the last system restart.

policy

Set the chassis power policy in the event power failure.

list

Return supported policies.

always-on

Turn on when power is restored.

previous

Returned to previous state when power is restored.

always-off

Stay off after power is restored.

power

Performs a chassis control command to view and change the power state.

status

Show current chassis power status.

on

Power up chassis.

off

Power down chassis into soft off (S4/S5 state). WARNING: This command does not initiate a clean shutdown of the operating system prior to powering down the system.

cycle

Provides a power off interval of at least 1 second. No action should occur if chassis power is in S4/S5 state, but it is recommended to check power state first and only issue a power cycle command if the system power is on or in lower sleep state than S4/S5.

reset

This command will perform a hard reset.

diag

Pulse a diagnostic interrupt (NMI) directly to the processor(s).

soft

Initiate a soft-shutdown of OS via ACPI. This can be done in a number of ways, commonly by simulating an overtemperture or by simulating a power button press. It is necessary for there to be Operating System support for ACPI and some sort of daemon watching for events for this soft power to work.

bootdev <device> [<clear-cmos=yes|no>]

Request the system to boot from an alternate boot device on next reboot. The clear-cmos option, if supplied, will instruct the BIOS to clear its CMOS on the next reboot.

Currently supported values for <device> are:

none

Do not change boot device

pxe

Force PXE boot

disk

Force boot from BIOS default boot device

safe

Force boot from BIOS default boot device, request Safe Mode

diag

Force boot from diagnostic partition

cdrom

Force boot from CD/DVD

bios

Force boot into BIOS setup

event

<predefined event number>

Send a pre-defined event to the System Event Log. The following events are included as a means to test the functionality of the System Event Log component of the BMC (an entry will be added each time the event n command is executed).

Currently supported values for n are:

1 Temperature: Upper Critical: Going High

2 Voltage Threshold: Lower Critical: Going Low

3 Memory: Correctable ECC Error Detected

NOTE: These pre-defined events will likely not produce "accurate" SEL records for a particular system because they will not be correctly tied to a valid sensor number, but they are sufficient to verify correct operation of the SEL.

file <filename>

Event log records specified in filename will be added to the System Event Log.

The format of each line in the file is as follows:

<{EvM Revision} {Sensor Type} {Sensor Num} {Event Dir/Type} {Event Data 0} {Event Data 1} {Event Data 2}>[# COMMENT]

Note: The Event Dir/Type field is encoded with the event direction as the high bit (bit 7) and the event type as the low 7 bits.

e.g.:

0x4 0x2 0x60 0x1 0x52 0x0 0x0 # Voltage threshold: Lower Critical: Going Low

<sensorid> <state> [<eventdir>]

Generate a custom event based on existing sensor information. The optional event direction can be either assert or deassert and defaults to assert. To get a list of possible states for a sensor supply a state of list on the command line. Each sensor may be different but some states will have pre-defined shortcuts. For example:

> ipmitool -I open event p0.t_core

Finding sensor p0.t_core... ok

Sensor States:

lnr : Lower Non-Recoverable

lcr : Lower Critical

lnc : Lower Non-Critical

unc : Upper Non-Critical

ucr : Upper Critical

unr : Upper Non-Recoverable

> ipmitool -I open event ps0.prsnt

Finding sensor ps0.prsnt... ok

Sensor States:

Device Absent

Device Present

State State Shortcuts:

present absent

assert deassert

limit nolimit

fail nofail

yes no

on off

up down

exec <filename>

Execute ipmitool commands from filename. Each line is a complete command. The syntax of the commands are defined by the COMMANDS section in this manpage. Each line may have an optional comment at the end of the line, delimited with a `#' symbol.

e.g., a command file with two lines:

sdr list # get a list of sdr records

sel list # get a list of sel records

fru

print

This command will read all Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) inventory data and extract such information as serial number, part number, asset tags, and short strings describing the chassis, board, or product.

i2c <i2caddr> <read bytes> [<write data>]

This will allow you to execute raw I2C commands with the Master Write-Read IPMI command.

isol

setup <baud rate>

Setup baud rate for IPMI v1.5 Serial-over-LAN.

lan

These commands will allow you to configure IPMI LAN channels with network information so they can be used with the ipmitool lan and lanplus interfaces. NOTE: To determine on which channel the LAN interface is located, issue the `channel info number' command until you come across a valid 802.3 LAN channel. For example:

> ipmitool -I open channel info 1

Channel 0x1 info:

Channel Medium Type : 802.3 LAN Channel Protocol Type : IPMB-1.0 Session Support : session-based Active Session Count : 8 Protocol Vendor ID : 7154

print <channel>

Print the current configuration for the given channel.

set <channel> <parameter>

Set the given parameter on the given channel. Valid parameters are:

ipaddr <x.x.x.x>

Set the IP address for this channel.

netmask <x.x.x.x>

Set the netmask for this channel.

macaddr <xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx>

Set the MAC address for this channel.

defgw ipaddr <x.x.x.x>

Set the default gateway IP address.

defgw macaddr <xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx>

Set the default gateway MAC address.

bakgw ipaddr <x.x.x.x>

Set the backup gateway IP address.

bakgw macaddr <xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx>

Set the backup gateway MAC address.

password <pass>

Set the null user password.

snmp <community string>

Set the SNMP community string.

user

Enable user access mode for userid 1 (issue the `user' command to display information about userids for a given channel).

access <on|off>

Set LAN channel access mode.

ipsrc <source>

Set the IP address source:

none unspecified

static manually configured static IP address

dhcp address obtained by BMC running DHCP

bios address loaded by BIOS or system software

arp respond <on|off>

Set BMC generated ARP responses.

arp generate <on|off>

Set BMC generated gratuitous ARPs.

arp interval <seconds>

Set BMC generated gratuitous ARP interval.

auth <level,...> <type,...>

Set the valid authtypes for a given auth level.

Levels: callback, user, operator, admin

Types: none, md2, md5, password, oem

cipher_privs <privlist>

Correlates cipher suite numbers with the maximum privilege level that is allowed to use it. In this way, cipher suites can restricted to users with a given privilege level, so that, for example, administrators are required to use a stronger cipher suite than normal users.

The format of privlist is as follows. Each character represents a privilege level and the character position identifies the cipher suite number. For example, the first character represents cipher suite 1 (cipher suite 0 is reserved), the second represents cipher suite 2, and so on. privlist must be 15 characters in length.

Characters used in privlist and their associated privilege levels are:

X Cipher Suite Unused

c CALLBACK

u USER

o OPERATOR

a ADMIN

O OEM

So, to set the maximum privilege for cipher suite 1 to USER and suite 2 to ADMIN, issue the following command:

> ipmitool -I interface lan set channel cipher_privs uaXXXXXXXXXXXXX

pef

info

This command will query the BMC and print information about the PEF supported features.

status

This command prints the current PEF status (the last SEL entry processed by the BMC, etc).

policy

This command lists the PEF policy table entries. Each policy entry describes an alert destination. A policy set is a collection of table entries. PEF alert actions reference policy sets.

list

This command lists the PEF table entries. Each PEF entry relates a sensor event to an action. When PEF is active, each platform event causes the BMC to scan this table for entries matching the event, and possible actions to be taken. Actions are performed in priority order (higher criticality first).

raw <netfn> <cmd> [<data>]

This will allow you to execute raw IPMI commands. For example to query the POH counter with a raw command:

> ipmitool -v raw 0x0 0xf

RAW REQ (netfn=0x0 cmd=0xf data_len=0)

RAW RSP (5 bytes)

3c 72 0c 00 00

sdr

get <id> ... [<id>]

Prints information for sensor data records specified by sensor id.

info

This command will query the BMC for SDR information.

type <sensor type>

This command will display all records from the SDR of a specific type. Run with type list to see the list of available types. For example to query for all Temperature sensors:

> ipmitool sdr type Temperature

Baseboard Temp | 30h | ok | 7.1 | 28 degrees C

FntPnl Amb Temp | 32h | ok | 12.1 | 24 degrees C

Processor1 Temp | 98h | ok | 3.1 | 57 degrees C

Processor2 Temp | 99h | ok | 3.2 | 53 degrees C

list | elist [<all|full|compact|event|mcloc|fru|generic>]

This command will read the Sensor Data Records (SDR) and extract sensor information of a given type, then query each sensor and print its name, reading, and status. If invoked as elist then it will also print sensor number, entity id and instance, and asserted discrete states.

The default output will only display full and compact sensor types, to see all sensors use the all type with this command.

Valid types are:

all

All SDR records (Sensor and Locator)

full

Full Sensor Record

compact

Compact Sensor Record

event

Event-Only Sensor Record

mcloc

Management Controller Locator Record

fru

FRU Locator Record

generic

Generic SDR records

entity <id>[.<instance>]

Displays all sensors associated with an entity. Get a list of valid entity ids on the target system by issuing the sdr elist command. A list of all entity ids can be found in the IPMI specifications.

dump <file>

Dumps raw SDR data to a file. This data file can then be used as a local SDR cache of the remote managed system with the -S <file> option on the ipmitool command line. This can greatly improve performance over system interface or remote LAN.

sel

NOTE: SEL entry-times are displayed as `Pre-Init Time-stamp' if the SEL clock needs to be set. Ensure that the SEL clock is accurate by invoking the sel time get and sel time set <time string> commands.

info

This command will query the BMC for information about the System Event Log (SEL) and its contents.

clear

This command will clear the contents of the SEL. It cannot be undone so be careful.

list | elist

When this command is invoked without arguments, the entire contents of the System Event Log are displayed. If invoked as elist it will also use the Sensor Data Record entries to display the sensor ID for the sensor that caused each event. Note this can take a long time over the system interface.

<count>|first <count>

Displays the first count (least-recent) entries in the SEL. If count is zero, all entries are displayed.

last <count>

Displays the last count (most-recent) entries in the SEL. If count is zero, all entries are displayed.

delete <number>

Delete a single event.

save <file>

Save SEL records to text file that can be fed back into the event file ipmitool command. This can be useful for testing Event generation by building an appropriate Platform Event Message file based on existing events. Please see the help for that command to view the format of this file.

time

get

Displays the SEL clock's current time.

set <time string>

Sets the SEL clock. Future SEL entries will use the time set by this command. <time string> is of the form "MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS". Note that hours are in 24-hour form. It is recommended that the SEL be cleared before setting the time.

sensor

list

Lists sensors and thresholds in a wide table format.

get <id> ... [<id>]

Prints information for sensors specified by name.

thresh <id> <threshold> <setting>

This allows you to set a particular sensor threshold value. The sensor is specified by name.

Valid thresholds are:

unr Upper Non-Recoverable

ucr Upper Critical

unc Upper Non-Critical

lnc Lower Non-Critical

lcr Lower Critical

lnr Lower Non-Recoverable

thresh <id> lower <lnr> <lcr> <lnc>

This allows you to set all lower thresholds for a sensor at the same time. The sensor is specified by name and the thresholds are listed in order of Lower Non-Recoverable, Lower Critical, and Lower Non-Critical.

thresh <id> upper <unc> <ucr> <unr>

This allows you to set all upper thresholds for a sensor at the same time. The sensor is specified by name and the thresholds are listed in order of Upper Non-Critical, Upper Critical, and Upper Non-Recoverable.

session

info <active|all|id 0xnnnnnnnn|handle 0xnn>

Get information about the specified session(s). You may identify sessions by their id, by their handle number, by their active status, or by using the keyword `all' to specify all sessions.

shell

This command will launch an interactive shell which you can use to send multiple ipmitool commands to a BMC and see the responses. This can be useful instead of running the full ipmitool command each time. Some commands will make use of a Sensor Data Record cache and you will see marked improvement in speed if these commands are able to reuse the same cache in a shell session. LAN sessions will send a periodic keepalive command to keep the IPMI session from timing out.

sol

info [<channel number>]

Retrieve information about the Serial-Over-LAN configuration on the specified channel. If no channel is given, it will display SOL configuration data for the currently used channel.

set <parameter> <value> [<channel>]

Configure parameters for Serial Over Lan. If no channel is given, it will display SOL configuration data for the currently used channel. Configuration parameter updates are automatically guarded with the updates to the set-in-progress parameter.

Valid parameters and values are:

set-in-progress

set-complete set-in-progress commit-write

enabled

true false

force-encryption

true false

force-authentication

true false

privilege-level

user operator admin oem

character-accumulate-level

Decimal number given in 5 milliseconds increments

character-send-threshold

Decimal number

retry-count

Decimal number. 0 indicates no retries after packet is transmitted.

retry-interval

Decimal number in 10 millisend increments. 0 indicates that retries should be sent back to back.

non-volatile-bit-rate

serial, 19.2, 38.4, 57.6, 115.2. Setting this value to serial indicates that the BMC should use the setting used by the IPMI over serial channel.

volatile-bit-rate

serial, 19.2, 38.4, 57.6, 115.2. Setting this value to serial indiates that the BMC should use the setting used by the IPMI over serial channel.

activate

Causes ipmitool to enter Serial Over LAN mode, and is only available when using the lanplus interface. An RMCP+ connection is made to the BMC, the terminal is set to raw mode, and user input is sent to the serial console on the remote server. On exit,the the SOL payload mode is deactivated and the terminal is reset to its original settings.

Special escape sequences are provided to control the SOL session:

~. Terminate connection

~^Z Suspend ipmitool

~B Send break

~~ Send the escape character by typing it twice

~? Print the supported escape sequences

deactivate

Deactivates Serial Over LAN mode on the BMC. Exiting Serial Over LAN mode should automatically cause this command to be sent to the BMC, but in the case of an unintentional exit from SOL mode, this command may be necessary to reset the state of the BMC.

sunoem

led

These commands provide a way to get and set the status of LEDs on a Sun Microsystems server. Use 'sdr list generic' to get a list of devices that are controllable LEDs. The ledtype parameter is optional and not necessary to provide on the command line unless it is required by hardware.

get <sensorid> [<ledtype>]

Get status of a particular LED described by a Generic Device Locator record in the SDR. A sensorid of all will get the status of all available LEDS.

set <sensorid> <ledmode> [<ledtype>]

Set status of a particular LED described by a Generic Device Locator record in the SDR. A sensorid of all will set the status of all available LEDS to the specified ledmode and ledtype.

LED Mode is required for set operations:

OFF Off

ON Steady On

STANDBY 100ms on 2900ms off blink rate

SLOW 1HZ blink rate

FAST 4HZ blink rate

LED Type is optional:

OK2RM Ok to Remove

SERVICE Service Required

ACT Activity

LOCATE Locate

sshkey

set <userid> <keyfile>

This command will allow you to specify an SSH key to use for a particular user on the Service Processor. This key will be used for CLI logins to the SP and not for IPMI sessions. View available users and their userids with the 'user list' command.

del <userid>

This command will delete the SSH key for a specified userid.

user

summary

Displays a summary of userid information, including maximum number of userids, the number of enabled users, and the number of fixed names defined.

list

Displays a list of user information for all defined userids.

set

name <userid> <username>

Sets the username associated with the given userid.

password <userid> [<password>]

Sets the password for the given userid. If no password is given, the password is cleared (set to the NULL password). Be careful when removing passwords from administrator-level accounts.

disable <userid>

Disables access to the BMC by the given userid.

enable <userid>

Enables access to the BMC by the given userid.

test <userid> <16|20> [<password>]

Determine whether a password has been stored as 16 or 20 bytes.

The ipmitool open interface utilizes the OpenIPMI kernel device driver. This driver is present in all modern 2.4 and all 2.6 kernels and it should be present in recent Linux distribution kernels. There are also IPMI driver kernel patches for different kernel versions available from the OpenIPMI homepage.

The required kernel modules is different for 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. The following kernel modules must be loaded on a 2.4-based kernel in order for ipmitool to work:

ipmi_msghandler

Incoming and outgoing message handler for IPMI interfaces.

ipmi_kcs_drv

An IPMI Keyboard Controler Style (KCS) interface driver for the message handler.

ipmi_devintf

Linux character device interface for the message handler.

The following kernel modules must be loaded on a 2.6-based kernel in order for ipmitool to work:

ipmi_msghandler

Incoming and outgoing message handler for IPMI interfaces.

ipmi_si

An IPMI system interface driver for the message handler. This module supports various IPMI system interfaces such as KCS, BT, SMIC, and even SMBus in 2.6 kernels.

ipmi_devintf

Linux character device interface for the message handler.

Once the required modules are loaded there will be a dynamic character device entry that must exist at /dev/ipmi0. For systems that use devfs or udev this will appear at /dev/ipmi/0.

To create the device node first determine what dynamic major number it was assigned by the kernel by looking in /proc/devices and checking for the ipmidev entry. Usually if this is the first dynamic device it will be major number 254 and the minor number for the first system interface is 0 so you would create the device entry with:

mknod /dev/ipmi0 c 254 0

ipmitool includes some sample initialization scripts that can perform this task automatically at start-up.

In order to have ipmitool use the OpenIPMI device interface you can specifiy it on the command line:

ipmitool -I open <command>

The ipmitool bmc interface utilizes the bmc device driver as provided by Solaris 10 and higher. In order to force ipmitool to make use of this interface you can specify it on the command line:

ipmitool -I bmc <command>

The following files are associated with the bmc driver:

/platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/bmc

32-bit ELF kernel module for the bmc driver.

/platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/amd64/bmc

64-bit ELF kernel module for the bmc driver.

/dev/bmc

Character device node used to communicate with the bmc driver.

The ipmitool lipmi interface uses the Solaris 9 IPMI kernel device driver. It has been superceeded by the bmc interface on Solaris 10. You can tell ipmitool to use this interface by specifying it on the command line.

ipmitool -I lipmi <expression>

The ipmitool lan interface communicates with the BMC over an Ethernet LAN connection using UDP under IPv4. UDP datagrams are formatted to contain IPMI request/response messages with a IPMI session headers and RMCP headers.

IPMI-over-LAN uses version 1 of the Remote Management Control Protocol (RMCP) to support pre-OS and OS-absent management. RMCP is a request-response protocol delivered using UDP datagrams to port 623.

The LAN interface is an authenticatiod multi-session connection; messages delivered to the BMC can (and should) be authenticated with a challenge/response protocol with either straight password/key or MD5 message-digest algorithm. ipmitool will attempt to connect with administrator privilege level as this is required to perform chassis power functions.

You can tell ipmitool to use the lan interface with the -I lan option:

ipmitool -I lan -H <hostname> [-U <username>] [-P <password>] <command>

A hostname must be given on the command line in order to use the lan interface with ipmitool. The password field is optional; if you do not provide a password on the command line, ipmitool will attempt to connect without authentication. If you specify a password it will use MD5 authentication if supported by the BMC and straight password/key otherwise, unless overridden with a command line option.

Like the lan interface, the lanplus interface communicates with the BMC over an Ethernet LAN connection using UDP under IPv4. The difference is that the lanplus interface uses the RMCP+ protocol as described in the IMPI v2.0 specification. RMCP+ allows for improved authentication and data integrity checks, as well as encryption and the ability to carry multiple types of payloads. Generic Serial Over LAN support requires RMCP+, so the ipmitool sol activate command requires the use of the lanplus interface.

RMCP+ session establishment uses a symmetric challenge-response protocol called RAKP (Remote Authenticated Key-Exchange Protocol) which allows the negotiation of many options. ipmitool does not yet allow the user to specify the value of every option, defaulting to the most obvious settings marked as required in the v2.0 specification. Authentication and integrity HMACS are produced with SHA1, and encryption is performed with AES-CBC-128. Role-level logins are not yet supported.

ipmitool must be linked with the OpenSSL library in order to perform the encryption functions and support the lanplus interface. If the required packages are not found it will not be compiled in and supported.

You can tell ipmitool to use the lanplus interface with the -I lanplus option:

ipmitool -I lanplus -H <hostname> [-U <username>] [-P <password>] <command>

A hostname must be given on the command line in order to use the lan interface with ipmitool. With the exception of the -A and -C options the rest of the command line options are identical to those available for the lan interface.

The -C option allows you specify the authentication, integrity, and encryption algorithms to use for for lanplus session based on the cipher suite ID found in the IPMIv2.0 specification in table 22-19. The default cipher suite is 3 which specifies RAKP-HMAC-SHA1 authentication, HMAC-SHA1-96 integrity, and AES-CBC-128 encryption algorightms.

Example 1: Listing remote sensors

> ipmitool -I lan -H 1.2.3.4 -f passfile sdr list

Baseboard 1.25V | 1.24 Volts | ok

Baseboard 2.5V | 2.49 Volts | ok

Baseboard 3.3V | 3.32 Volts | ok

Example 2: Displaying status of a remote sensor

> ipmitool -I lan -H 1.2.3.4 -f passfile sensor get "Baseboard 1.25V"

Locating sensor record...

Sensor ID : Baseboard 1.25V (0x10)

Sensor Type (Analog) : Voltage

Sensor Reading : 1.245 (+/- 0.039) Volts

Status : ok

Lower Non-Recoverable : na

Lower Critical : 1.078

Lower Non-Critical : 1.107

Upper Non-Critical : 1.382

Upper Critical : 1.431

Upper Non-Recoverable : na

Example 3: Displaying the power status of a remote chassis

> ipmitool -I lan -H 1.2.3.4 -f passfile chassis power status

Chassis Power is on

Example 4: Controlling the power on a remote chassis

> ipmitool -I lan -H 1.2.3.4 -f passfile chassis power on

Chassis Power Control: Up/On

Duncan Laurie <duncan@iceblink.org>

IPMItool Homepage

http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net

Intelligent Platform Management Interface Specification

http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi

OpenIPMI Homepage

http://openipmi.sourceforge.net