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The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is a remote hardware health monitoring and management system that defines interfaces for use in monitoring the physical health of servers, such as temperature, voltage, fans, power supplies and chassis. Questions about IPMI in servers are off topic and should be asked on http://serverfault.com/.

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Getting to the GRUB menu using IPMI on a supermicro server

I have supermicro server running Grub 2.02 BETA 2. I kind of inherited this box, so I am kind approaching things gingerly. The box supports ONIE and I want to install a new image, but the first thing I would like to do is to get to the Grub menu. …
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Is it possible to simulate the Physical Server IPMI in any platform such as VMWare workstation?

Is it possible to simulate the Physical Server IPMI in any platform such as VMWare workstation? You know the Physical Server have BMC board with IPMI in it. so we can use a controller server to communicative to each Physical Server via IPMI. but…
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Whether the IPMI management can not show disk's information?

I use the IPMI management check the system information, but there only shows the System, BIOS, CPU and DIMM. there is no disk information there. So, whether the BMC can not get disk information?
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How do I reset the IPMI interface on my Power8 server?

I have a problem with our Power8 box. I can no longer use the IPMI interface - every command I issue even simple read only queries like "chassis status" result in the following output: $ /opt/local/bin/ipmitool -I lanplus -H 192.168.70.147 -P admin…
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Why is a Windows 10 ISO not booting in Dell server virtual console?

I am trying to install Windows 10 on a Dell PowerEdge R630 with 2x Intel Xeon E5-2690v4. I do not have physical access to it, I have IPMI access. I loaded a Windows 10 official ISO file in virtual media, but when trying to boot with it: The Windows…
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How to monitor drive failures via IPMI/Redfish Supermicro & Gigabyte

We have a bunch of Supermicro SuperServers deployed (various generations) and since we had a few drive (SSD) failures in the last month. We only noticed the failures (depending on the RAID level) either by passing by the server and seeing the LED…
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IPMI hardware monitor on ASUS Bios shows N/A for all sensors

I have an "ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI" motherboard. The IPMI Hardware Monitor in BIOS displays a list of sensors for temperature, voltage, and fan speed, but all of them show 'N/A' instead of actual readings.. When I use ipmitool in OS on the…
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How do I find the (IPMI) IP of a machine that won't turn on?

Bit of a weird question - but I bought a storage server on an auction a while back. There's no documentation or stickers on the machine, and it will not turn on by pressing the power button. I'm simply trying to turn this machine on. The network…
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Using IPMITOOL to disable a fan sensor

I am no longer using FAN3 in my system. But there is still a lower/upper sensor bound set for it. I had set that previously using ipmitool. How can I use ipmitool to set all the values back to na instead of 0? Because currently, the lower threshold…
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Installing ipmitool for Windows

I am trying to install ipmitool on Windows 10. I just installed Cygwin and have been trying to follow the steps for building ipmitool 1.8.12 (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12907005/ipmitool-for-windows), but I am having issues packaging the…
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After several times of ipmitool commands, now I can not get established with IPMI address using ipmitool now

I created a VM CentOS 7(based on a Dedicated Server), installed the ipmitool in it, I want to use it to manage the Dedicated Servers under the LAN(172.18.16.0/20), now in the VM I can ping 172.18.16.230(one Dedicated Server's IPMI…
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Supermicro X9DRT-HF+ board won't power on (hw switch defunct) after IPMI setting changed in BIOS [solved]

I have a bunch of used Supermicro X9DRT-HF+ boards with dual Xeon and 128GB RAM. They came with IPMI settings to use static IP addresses. I changed the settings in BIOS under IPMI->"BMC Network Configuration"->"Update IPMI LAN Configuration" from…
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Is KVM Over IP the same as an IPMI?

The reason I ask is because my provider gives me an IP that I go to and I can login and access my server via a web interface on a public IP. Recently, there has been a lot of hacks via exploits to IPMI devices. Is this an issue I should worry…
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How to use ipmitool bridging

I read the bridging section in 'man' several times but it might as well be written in Greek (or perhaps I fundamentally misunderstand what it is). Suppose that I have two server nodes (A and B), each one has an IPMI controller. Nodes are connected…
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How to check a server's power status using ipmiutil?

I look at the ipmiutil document, but I do not find a command to show the Server's power status. Who can tell me how to check a server's power status? EDIT-01 I use my ipmiutil command check my server status, I see the Chassis Status = 10 00…
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