IPMI from LAN does not work

[David_Kewley at Dell.com]

Try -I lanplus instead of -I lan.

David

David Kewley
Dell Infrastructure Consulting Services
Cell: 602-460-7617
David_Kewley at Dell.com

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Juan Rodriguez
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:44 PM
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: IPMI from LAN does not work
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We have recently bought some PowerEdge R20 servers.
> 
> I have installed OpenIPMI package and the ipmitool command. We are
> using Centos 5.1
> 
> The problems is that ipmitool works well inside the machine 
> but when I try
> to execute it with the IPMI lan ip address I get no response.
> 
> For example, this command works if I am logged into the server:
> 
> ipmitool mc info
> 
> But this one (from another machine) on the same switch, does not:
> 
> ipmitool -I lan -H 10.20.0.41 -U ***** -P ***** mc info
> 
> What is the problem ? I have seen some options in the BIOS I 
> can't remember well
> right now (COM1/BMC, BMC serial, BMC nic,..... ) what must I 
> choose here
> to make this work ?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -- 
> JFRH
> 
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