1ipmi-config.conf(5) System Commands ipmi-config.conf(5)
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6 ipmi-config - IPMI configuration file details
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9 Before many IPMI tools can be used over a network, a machine's Base‐
10 board Management Controller (BMC) must be configured. The configuration
11 can be quite daunting for those who do not know much about IPMI. This
12 manpage hopes to provide enough information on BMC configuration so
13 that you can configure the BMC for your system. When appropriate, typi‐
14 cal BMC configurations will be suggested.
15 The following is an example configuration file partially generated by
17 running the --checkout option with the ipmi-config(8) command. This
18 configuration comes from the core category of configuration values (the
19 default). This example configuration should be sufficient for most
20 users after the appropriate local IP and MAC addresses are input. Fol‐
21 lowing this example, separate sections of this manpage will discuss the
22 different sections of the configuration file in more detail with expla‐
23 nations of how the BMC can be configured for different environments.
24 Note that many options may or may not be available on your particular
26 machine. For example, Serial-Over-Lan (SOL) is available only on IPMI
27 2.0 machines. Therefore, if you are looking to configure an IPMI 1.5
28 machine, many of the SOL or IPMI 2.0 related options will be be
29 unavailable to you. The number of configurable users may also vary for
30 your particular machine.
31 The below configuration file and most of this manpage assume the user
33 is interested in configuring a BMC for use with IPMI over LAN. Various
34 configuration options from ipmi-config(8) have been left out or skipped
35 because it is considered unnecessary. Future versions of this manpage
36 will try to include more information.
37 Section User1
39 ## Give username
40 ## Username NULL
41 ## Give password or leave it blank to clear password
42 Password mypassword
43 ## Possible values: Yes/No or blank to not set
44 Enable_User Yes
45 ## Possible values: Yes/No
46 Lan_Enable_Ipmi_Msgs Yes
47 ## Possible values: Callback/User/Operator/Administrator/OEM_Proprietary/No_Access
48 Lan_Privilege_Limit Administrator
49 ## Possible values: 0-17, 0 is unlimited; May be reset to 0 if not specified
50 ## Lan_Session_Limit
51 ## Possible values: Yes/No
52 SOL_Payload_Access Yes
53 EndSection
54 Section User2
55 ## Give username
56 Username user2
57 ## Give password or leave it blank to clear password
58 Password userpass
59 ## Possible values: Yes/No or blank to not set
60 Enable_User No
61 ## Possible values: Yes/No
62 Lan_Enable_Ipmi_Msgs No
63 ## Possible values: Callback/User/Operator/Administrator/OEM_Proprietary/No_Access
64 Lan_Privilege_Limit No_Access
65 ## Possible values: 0-17, 0 is unlimited; May be reset to 0 if not specified
66 ## Lan_Session_Limit
67 ## Possible values: Yes/No
68 SOL_Payload_Access No
69 EndSection
70 Section Lan_Channel
71 ## Possible values: Disabled/Pre_Boot_Only/Always_Available/Shared
72 Volatile_Access_Mode Always_Available
73 ## Possible values: Yes/No
74 Volatile_Enable_User_Level_Auth Yes
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