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Chapter 3
3. IPMI Commands Overview
This chapter provides a set of example IPMI commands, and is not meant to be a comprehensive
guide in the use of ipmitool. Its purpose is to briefly describe some of the commonly used IPMI
commands to help you get started with your cluster administration.
Command-line utility for issuing common IPMI requests allows remote operation usage:
ipmitool [-v] [-I interface] [-o oemtype] [-H bmc-ip-address] [-k key]
[-U user] [-P password] [-E] command...
-v : Verbosity, can be specified multiple times -vv
-I interface : IPMI interface to use
-o oemtype : Select OEM type to support
Note: Use -o supermicro for the SGI Altix XE250 or XE270 head node or compute node, or
the SGI Altix XE320 or XE340 compute nodes. Use
-o intelplus for a legacy SGI Altix
XE240 head node.
Use -o list to see a list of current supported OEM types.
open – OpenIPMI driver (default)
lan – LAN connection (remote connection, requires -H/-U/-P arguments)
lanplus – LANplus connection (IPMI 2.0) Requires -H/-U/-P arguments be
supplied
-H bmc-ip-address : Hostname or IP address of remote BMC (-I lan only)
-k key : KG Key (System password) (-I lanplus only)
-U user : Username on remote system (-I lan only)
-P pass : Password for user on remote system (-I lan only)
-E : Read password from IPMI_PASSWORD environment variable
If -E and -P are not specified on a remote connection, the utility prompts for a password.