Product User Guide

4.1.3 KiraTool Options for the Connection Type

Options for connection type are a set of switches which can control how KiraTool accesses the

Intel

RMM2. KiraTool supports following connection options:

• -l <IP Address>, use the specified IP address to talk to the Intel

RMM2 over

LAN.

• -s, use IPMI over SCSI/USB; this can be augmented with the following -d device

option.

• -d, device option: here you can specify the drive identification for SCSI access of

the Intel

RMM2. For the Windows* version use the drive letter, ( e.g. F: ) and for

Linux use /dev/sg1. If you omit this option, KiraTool will attempt to auto-detect the

Intel

RMM2 by probing the SCSI drive identification.

Note: If you do not specify a option for connection type, the default type for the DOS* version is

SMI; the default type for EFI, Linux, and Windows* versions is USB/SCSI.

4.1.4 KiraTool Options for the Authentication Type

In order to execute administrative functions on the Intel

RMM2, KiraTool needs to authenticate

the user; options for authentication are designed for this purpose. All Intel

RMM2 modules come

with a pre-configured administrator login with a factory default password.

Note: The default login is “admin” for the administrator user name and “password” for the

administrator password.

For most KiraTool commands you must specify the administrative login and password to the Intel

RMM2 using the following options:

-u – the admin user

-p – the admin password

For example:

linux# kiratool -u admin -p password ip show

Note: If you use KiraTool from a batch or script file, you will almost certainly enter these

passwords in clear text in the file. This is a potential security problem: anyone who can read your

command file can attain administrative access to your Intel

RMM2 modules and is able to

reconfigure or disable them; this can have a serious impact on your servers or your network.

MAKE SURE YOU ADEQUATELY PROTECT THESE FILES FROM UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS!

In order to reduce the risk of the clear text passwords in such files, KiraTool offers an option:

-P prompt for admin password

You would then execute the KiraTool command as follows:

linux# kiratool –u admin –P lan

Password: