{"id":2205,"date":"2014-04-23T07:53:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T06:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2014-07-07T16:24:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T15:24:23","slug":"idracs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/2014\/04\/idracs\/","title":{"rendered":"idrac7 + ipmitool stopped working with firmware 1.56.55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i use ipmitool to check health of the poweredge servers from nagios.<\/p>\n<p>in essence i execute:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nipmitool -L USER -H $1 -U $2 -P $3 sel elist last 10\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>and alert if the exist code is non-zero, then i execute<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nipmitool -L USER -H $1 -U $2 -P $3 sdr &gt; stateFile\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>and again &#8211; i alert on non-zero exit code, i also grep the file in search of lines not containing ok\/ns.<\/p>\n<p>this was working fine for DRAC 5 in 1950\/2950 servers and iDRAC 7 in r620 servers &#8211; until 1.51.51 firmware; but it stopped working with the arrival of 1.56.55 fw and started to give me:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nGet Session Challenge command failed\r\nError: Unable to establish LAN session\r\nGet Device ID command failed\r\nUnable to open SDR for reading\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>after some mailing with dell&#8217;s support i learned that i should have been adding <i>-I lanplus<\/i> to all my ipmitool calls &#8216;since forever&#8217;, and indeed &#8211; that solved the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i use ipmitool to check health of the poweredge servers from nagios. in essence i execute: ipmitool -L USER -H $1 -U $2 -P $3 sel elist last 10 and alert if the exist code is non-zero, then i execute ipmitool -L USER -H $1 -U $2 -P $3 sdr &gt; stateFile and again &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-unimportant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}