Dell remote control card uses ipmitools to set IPMI

Use DELL The remote control card can conveniently manage the server

stay CentOS Can be used in ipmitools management IPMI( Intelligent Platform Management Interface).

To use the range control card , Generally, you need to insert a network cable into the control card and set ip, stay BIOS Of Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) Set in Dedicated （ special ）, The settings encountered are shared（ share ）, It is found that the network card light of the control card is not on , Static allocation ip It doesn't work , It needs to be changed to Dedicated .

use ipmitool Set up dedicated

ipmitool delloem lan set dedicated

DELL Of R410,R610, Press Ctrl+E Enter the setting interface
DELL Of C6100,R620, Press F2 Enter the setting interface

1、 stay centos install OpenIPMI：

yum install OpenIPMI OpenIPMI-tools

2、 Set boot up

chkconfig ipmi on

3、 start-up ipmi service

service ipmi start

Example ：

4、 Setting up ip

ipmitool -I open lan set 1 ipsrc static
ipmitool -I open lan set 1 ipaddr 10.10.1.x
ipmitool -I open lan set 1 netmask 255.255.255.0
ipmitool -I open lan set 1 defgw ipaddr 10.10.1.1
ipmitool -I open lan set 1 access on

Set auto get ip, If you can't get it for a while , You need to turn off the machine , wait for 5 Minutes later , Plug in the Internet cable first and then connect it to the power supply

ipmitool -I open lan set 1 ipsrc dhcp

5、 Check the control card information

ipmitool lan print 1

6、 Check out the management address

ipmitool lan print 1 | grep 'IP Address'

To enhance security , Modify the default SNMP Communication string

ipmitool -I open lan set 1 snmp COMUNIATION

7、 User Settings

See which users can web land

ipmitool -I open user list 1

obtain ：

ID  Name         Callin  Link Auth  IPMI Msg   Channel Priv Limit
1                true    false      true       ADMINISTRATOR
2   admin        true    false      false      NO ACCESS

The number listed is 2 For the root user , by administration jurisdiction ,（ The default password is root or calvin）,
Now change its password

ipmitool -I open user set password 2

Enter the password twice .
Empathy , Serial number is 1 It's for a user Ordinary users null, Change their password

ipmitool -I open lan set 1 password

Restrictions on users
User enabled ：ipmitool user enable
Right control of users ：ipmitool user priv

The above is to set and view the remote management card in the operating system , For remote operations, you can use the following command ：

ipmitool -H 192.168.8.137 -U root -P root sensor |grep -i temp

see event log

ipmitool -v -H 10.10.1.38  -U root -P root sel list

Empty event log

ipmitool sel clear

You can also control the remote ipmi The power supply

ipmitool -I lan -H 10.1.199.212 -U root -P root chassis power off/reset/on/status

Control the remote ipmi How to guide

ipmitool -I lan -H 10.1.199.212 -U root -P root chassis bootdev pxe/disk/cdrom

On the effectiveness of the setting ：

So far from the test results , Turn off the machine and turn off the power ,3 I'll turn it on in minutes , This is the most reliable way to work .

But real time is our goal , But the effect is not very good

Online said ipmitool mc reset cold It's a reboot BMC, But I tried , It's reset , Be sure to question things on the Internet .

Reference resources ：

Set up iDRAC

Set up ipmi

Add ：

about Dell It's a lot of C Series servers , Use the top method with ipmitool Modify the network card mode dedicated by shared Will prompt

Error in setting nic selection (Invalid command)

C series , Such as C6100, Use dell A tool of your own bmc tool To set the network card sharing mode

Download address http://poweredgec.com/, Provide tgz and rpm Installation package . I download tgz package , After decompression, execute

[[email protected] ~]# ./bmc nic_mode get
 dedicated
[[email protected] ~]# ./bmc nic_mode set shared
[[email protected] ~]# ./bmc nic_mode get
 shared

Dell C series bmc Tool Manual

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