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On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 8:39 AM, Dan Prince <dprince at redhat.com> wrote:

> Kind of a support question but figured I'd ask here in case there are
> suggestions for workarounds for specific machines.
>
> Setting up a new rack of mixed machines this week and hit this issue
> with HP machines using the ipmi power driver for Ironic. Curious if
> anyone else has seen this before? The same commands work great with my
> Dell boxes!
>
> -----
>
> [root at localhost ~]# cat x.sh
> set -x
> # this is how Ironic sends its IPMI commands it fails
> echo -n password > /tmp/tmprmdOOv
> ipmitool -I lanplus -H 172.31.0.19 -U Adminstrator -f /tmp/tmprmdOOv
> power status
>
> # this works great
> ipmitool -I lanplus -H 172.31.0.19 -U Administrator -P password power
> status
>
> [root at localhost ~]# bash x.sh
> + echo -n password
> + ipmitool -I lanplus -H 172.31.0.19 -U Adminstrator -f /tmp/tmprmdOOv
> power status
> Error: Unable to establish IPMI v2 / RMCP+ session
> + ipmitool -I lanplus -H 172.31.0.19 -U Administrator -P password power
> status
> Chassis Power is on
>

Very strange. A tcpdump of both would probably be enlightening. :)

Also curious what version of ipmitool this is, maybe you're hitting an old
bug.

// jim
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