Enabling IPMI using ipmiutil

ipmiutil is available for Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OSX, and FreeBSD and can be downloaded from: http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/

The following command will enable LAN access for IPMI on IP 10.1.2.3 with gateway 10.1.2.1, username admin and password Password

ipmiutil lan –e –I 10.1.2.3 -f 2 -G 10.1.2.1 –u admin –p Password

 

To set shared LAN on Dell servers (useful if the servers does not have a DRAC card):

ipmiutil delloem lan set shared