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2: Administrative Tips and Adding a Node
Administrative Tips
Root password and administrative information includes:
• Root password = sgisgi (head node and compute nodes)
• Ipmitool user/password info: User = admin Password = admin
Refer to Table 1-2 on page 16 and Table 1-3 on page 18 for listings of the IPMI IP addresses for
nodes.
Note: The ipmitool command syntax for SGI Altix XE250/XE270 head nodes and SGI Altix
XE340 and XE320 compute nodes
(run via the Platform Manage head node):
-ipmitool –I lanplus –o supermicro –H ip address command
The ipmitool command syntax for legacy SGI Altix XE240 head nodes
(run via the Platform Manage head node):
-ipmitool –I lanplus –o intelplus –H ip address command
SGI Altix XE systems that run SLES10, release 4, can use the following service:
checkconfig ipmi on
/etc/init.d/ipmi start
Following is the ipmitool command syntax for running directly from the head node (or any
node) on itself. (Note the absence of the –I –o and –H options):
ipmitool command