Edit: It’s working now, using
ipmiutil power -u on an rpi. Had to update the IPMI firmware on my X10 board before it would connect.Need to research alternative IPMI tooling
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/05/07
Since IPMIView cannot mount ISOs and some tasks are not that convenient in GUI tools, I want to look more deeply in console based IPMI tooling.
Though my machine to remotely manage stuff is a MacOS based machine, most of my sites have Raspberry Pi devices, so some compatibility there would be nice. imputil seems to work there given IPMI firmware is recent:
- [WayBack] SOLVED – Automatically turn on server after power is restored, but with a delay? | iXsystems Community
ipmiutil power -u -N <ipmi IP> -U <ipmi admin> -P <ipmi password> -V 4
Here are some names for future research:
- impmiutil
- [WayBack] ipmiutil – IPMI Management Utilities
IPMI Management Utilities Project provides a series of common utilities for IPMI server management locally or via LAN. The utilities provide source and scriptable command binaries for automating server management functions.
IPMIUTIL performs a series of common IPMI server management functions to allow administrators to perform management functions without a learning curve. It can gather FRU inventory data, SEL firmware log, sensors, watchdog, power control, health, monitoring, and has an SOL console. It can write sensor thresholds, FRU asset tags, and supports a full IPMI configuration save/restore. Ease-of-use examples with IPMIUTIL:
- Native builds on many OSs: Linux, Windows, BSD, Solaris, MacOSX, HPUX
- The only IPMI project natively supporting Windows drivers
- IPMIUTIL supports any IPMI-compliant vendor firmware
- IPMIUTIL detects and handles OEM-specific IPMI firmware variants
- IPMIUTIL interprets various vendor OEM-specific sensor values automatically.
- Any IPMI values not yet recognized at least return the values, rather than just ‘na’ or Unknown.
- Shared library for custom applications, sample source included
- IPMIUTIL BSD license is compatible with open-source or commercial use
- Linux driverless support is ideal for boot media or embedded
- Configuring the IPMI LAN requires just a single command
- The decoding of IPMI SEL events includes a severity.
- A soft-reboot can be easily performed instead of a hard reboot by using ipmiutil_asy, even if the platform does not support ACPI.
- IPMI SEL management is automated via checksel.
- Watchdog management is automated via ipmiutil_wdt.
- [WayBack] homebrew-core/ipmiutil.rb at master · Homebrew/homebrew-core · GitHub
- [WayBack] ipmiutil — Homebrew Formulae
- [WayBack] Install ipmiutil on Mac with Brew | BrewInstall
- [WayBack] ipmiutil – IPMI Management Utilities
- ipmitool
- [WayBack] IPMItool download | SourceForge.net
# OBSOLETEThe project has moved to GitHub at github.com/ipmitool/ipmitool
IPMItool provides a simple command-line interface to IPMI-enabled devices through an IPMIv1.5 or IPMIv2.0 LAN interface or Linux/Solaris kernel driver.
- [WayBack] GitHub – ipmitool/ipmitool: An open-source tool for controlling IPMI-enabled systems
The ipmitool program provides a simple command-line interface to this BMC. It features the ability to read the sensor data repository (SDR) and print sensor values, display the contents of the System Event Log (SEL), print Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) inventory information, read and set LAN configuration parameters, and perform remote chassis power control.
- [WayBack] homebrew-core/ipmitool.rb at master · Homebrew/homebrew-core · GitHub
- [WayBack] ipmitool — Homebrew Formulae
- [WayBack] IPMItool download | SourceForge.net
- freeipmi
- [WayBack] FreeIPMI – Home
FreeIPMI provides in-band and out-of-band IPMI software based on the IPMI v1.5/2.0 specification. The IPMI specification defines a set of interfaces for platform management and is implemented by a number vendors for system management. The features of IPMI that most users will be interested in are sensor monitoring, system event monitoring, power control, and serial-over-LAN (SOL). The FreeIPMI tools and libraries listed below should provide users with the ability to access and utilize these and many other features. A number of useful features for large HPC or cluster environments have also been implemented into FreeIPMI. See the README or FAQ for more info.
- [WayBack] homebrew-core/freeipmi.rb at master · Homebrew/homebrew-core · GitHub
- [WayBack] freeipmi — Homebrew Formulae
- [WayBack] FreeIPMI – Home
Things I am interested in:
- discovering IPMI capable devices in a network
- reading sensors
- setting power state
- mounting/unmounting ISO images
–jeroen
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 
jpluimers said
Nope: never fount better tooling. Still curious if others do.
Johan Leirnes said
Hi,
I basically just setup a docker container that uses this tool for now.
br,
Johan Leirnes
Johan Leirnes said
HI,
Did you manage to find a tool that works for you with macOS?
I have been trying to get the SMCIPMITool to work for some time but really cannot get it to work:
I get this error when connecting
java.io.IOException: Failed to get field handle to set library path
at com.supermicro.ipmi.text.SuperBladeTool.addDir(SuperBladeTool.java:4241)
at com.supermicro.ipmi.text.SuperBladeTool.execute(SuperBladeTool.java:3982)
at com.supermicro.ipmi.text.SuperBladeTool.main(SuperBladeTool.java:3972)
The connection does go throught:
SMC IPMI Tool V2.27.1(Build 221101) – Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Press Ctrl+D or “exit” to exit
Press “?” or “help” for help
Press TAB for command completion
Press UP and DOWN key for command history
Trap Receiver Started
10.1.192.71 X11SDV (S0/G0) 02:11 AST2500>
But when i run any command that needs to execute on the remote machine it just stops, no error or anything.