BMC/IPMI user account question

[Ronan Mullally]

Hi,

I'm in the process of writing a couple of scripts to monitor the BMC on
some Dell 2850s via IPMI.  I'd ideally like to set up seperate user
credentials for this.  As I understand it IPMI has several user levels
(USER, OPERATOR, ADMINISTRATOR) which I presume should enable me to
restrict the functionality available to these scripts.

I'm using ipmitool to create the new user account ('status').  I've
set the username, password and enabled the account, but I can't set
the privilege level:

 ipmitool> user list
 ID  Name             Callin  Link Auth  IPMI Msg   Channel Priv Limit
 2   root             true    true       true       ADMINISTRATOR
 3   status           true    true       true       NO ACCESS

 ipmitool> user priv 3 1
 Set Privilege Level command failed (user 3)
 ipmitool> user priv 3 2
 Set Privilege Level command failed (user 3)
 ipmitool> user priv 3 3
 Set Privilege Level command failed (user 3)
 ipmitool> user priv 3 USER
 Set Privilege Level command failed (user 3)
 ipmitool> user priv 3 ADMINISTRATOR
 Set Privilege Level command failed (user 3)

I've tried setting the user up through the BMC interface at boot time
but it only appears to support a single user.

Does the 2850 actually support more than one user account for accessing
the BMC?


-Ronan