I’m responsible for administering several Intel Xserves and like many of you, I tend to handle our business via the command line. We use the open source version of ipmitool (1.8.7) running on Red Hat Enterprise 4 to access LOMs. Right now I’m rather worried about Apple’s IPMI implementation on the Xserves because after having set the LOM account name and password via the Server Monitor GUI, I can successfully run impi commands remotely from my RedHat system using the open source ipmitool with supplying the correct password.
“ipmitool -H
-I lan -U ”
will prompt me for a password but I can then enter ANYTHING and the command will run OK.
Of course, running Apple’s ipmitool command from a remote Xserve handles the authentication correctly and requires the right password to run commands.
This is a serious problem. Is anyone able to recreate it?
BTW, how can I reset the LOM back to factory settings?
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Yemi
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