[Ipmitool-devel] ipmitool set channel password error

[Frank Ma <fr...@MI...>]

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Dear ipmitoolers :),
I have a tyan host (s2882-D motherboard:
http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=127) with a M3289 SMDC
management card. I am having a difficult time using ipmitool to remotely
manage the host computer. Could you give me some pointers? Thanks!

The host computer runs linux. On the host, I have loaded the OpenIPMI drivers,
and I can access the SMDC card locally. eg I can,
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[frankma@t2srv0009 ipmi]$ ipmitool chassis power status
Chassis Power is on
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Now I want to use the lan interface to control the SMDC card from another
computer. So I try to set the lan configurations:
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[frankma@t2srv0009 ipmi]$ sudo ipmitool lan print 2
Set in Progress         : Set Complete
Auth Type Support       : NONE MD5 PASSWORD
Auth Type Enable        : Callback : NONE MD5 PASSWORD
                        : User     : NONE MD5 PASSWORD
                        : Operator : NONE MD5 PASSWORD
                        : Admin    : NONE MD5 PASSWORD
                        : OEM      : NONE MD5 PASSWORD
IP Address Source       : Static Address
IP Address              : 10.16.2.35
Subnet Mask             : 255.0.0.0
MAC Address             : 00:e0:81:43:25:96
SNMP Community String   : public
IP Header               : TTL=0x40 Flags=0xe0 Precedence=0x80 TOS=0x08
BMC ARP Control         : ARP Responses Enabled, Gratuitous ARP Enabled
Gratituous ARP Intrvl   : 2.0 seconds
Default Gateway IP      : 0.0.0.1
Default Gateway MAC     : 00:00:00:00:00:00
Backup Gateway IP       : 192.168.2.0
Backup Gateway MAC      : 00:00:00:00:00:00
Cipher Suite Priv Max   : Not Available
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I'm not quite sure what channel means to ipmitool, but it seems that channel 2
is the only one that works.

I encounter a problem trying to set the password for channel 2 to be "pw":
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[frankma@t2srv0009 ipmi]$ ipmitool lan set 2 password pw
Set LAN Password for user 1 failed: Unspecified error
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Setting the user password also doesn't work:
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[frankma@t2srv0009 ipmi]$ ipmitool user set password 5 pw
Set User Password command failed (user 5): Unspecified error
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But this password is different from the lan connection password right?
Have I done something wrong?

thanks very much for your help,
-Frank

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