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On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 1:27 PM, Jim Rollenhagen <jim at jimrollenhagen.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 1:18 PM, Jim Rollenhagen <jim at jimrollenhagen.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/ipmitool/bugs/90/ would seem like a prime suspect
> here.

Thanks for the suggestion Jim! So I tried a few very short passwords
and no dice so far. Looking into the tcpdump info a bit now.

I'm in a bit of a rush so I may hack in a quick patch Ironic to make
ipmitool to use the -P option to proceed and loop back to fix this a
bit later.

Dan

>
> // jim
>
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