IHEALTH(8)

💖 IHEALTH(8) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the System Manager's Manual, and it's literally all about ipmiutil_health — yes that's the name, she's iconic, she's section 8, she's here to tell you if your BMC is thriving or lowkey dying. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ipmiutil_health — show IPMI health 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ipmiutil health [-ifhglmnopqsx -N node -U user -P/-R pswd -EFJTVY]

look at her. all those flags. main character energy fr fr 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so ipmiutil health is a program that uses IPMI commands to show the health of the BMC. that's the whole vibe check. 🩺

and the way this utility is flexible?? it can use either:

• the /dev/ipmi0 driver from OpenIPMI
• the /dev/imb driver from Intel
• the /dev/ipmikcs driver from valinux
• direct user-space IOs
• or the IPMI LAN interface if you pass -N

pick your fighter bestie, she'll work with any of them 😌

💅 OPTIONS 💅

command line options are described below. yes there are a lot of them. no we are not skipping any. sit down, hydrate, let's go 🍓

• -c — show canonical, delimited output. very structured, very demure.
• -f — show the FRUSDR version also.
• -g — show the IPMI GUID of this system. heads up bestie, the GUID is a read-only unique identifier. you can look, you cannot touch. 🙈
• -h — check the health of the HotSwap Controller also.
• -l — show the IPMI LAN channel statistics also.
• -m 002000 — target a specific MC (e.g. bus 00, sa 20, lun 00). this could be used for PICMG or ATCA blade systems. the trailing character, if present, indicates SMI addressing if s, or IPMB addressing if i or not present. iykyk.
• -n string — set the System Name to this string in the IPMI System Information.
• -o string — set the Primary Operating System to this string in the IPMI System Information.
• -p 1 — set the chassis Power restore policy, governing the desired behavior when power was lost and is restored. the values are literally:
  • 0 = stay off
  • 1 = last state
  • 2 = always on
• -q string — set the Secondary Operating System to this string in the IPMI System Information.
• -s — show the IPMI Session information also.
• -x — causes extra debug messages to be displayed. chaos mode activated 💀
• -N nodename — nodename or IP address of the remote target system. if a nodename is specified, the IPMI LAN interface is used. otherwise the local system management interface is used.
• -P/-R rmt_pswd — remote password for the nodename given. the default is a null password. (bestie. please set a password.)
• -U rmt_user — remote username for the nodename given. the default is a null username.
• -E — use the remote password from the environment variable IPMI_PASSWORD. sneaky and convenient, we love her. ✨
• -F drv_t — force the driver type to one of the followng: imb, va, open, gnu, landesk, lan, lan2, lan2i, kcs, smb. note that lan2i means lan2 with intelplus. the default is to detect any available driver type and use it. she's autonomous, she'll figure it out 💅
• -J — use the specified LanPlus cipher suite (0 thru 17):
  • 0=none/none/none
  • 1=sha1/none/none
  • 2=sha1/sha1/none
  • 3=sha1/sha1/cbc128
  • 4=sha1/sha1/xrc4_128
  • 5=sha1/sha1/xrc4_40
  • 6=md5/none/none
  • ...
  • 14=md5/md5/xrc4_40

default is 3. 📌

• -T — use a specified IPMI LAN Authentication Type:
  • 0=None
  • 1=MD2
  • 2=MD5
  • 4=Straight Password
  • 5=OEM
• -V — use a specified IPMI LAN privilege level:
  • 1=Callback level
  • 2=User level
  • 3=Operator level
  • 4=Administrator level (default)
  • 5=OEM level
• -Y — yes, do prompt the user for the IPMI LAN remote password. alternatives for the password are -E or -P.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read these too bestie, they're all part of the squad:

ipmiutil(8) ialarms(8) iconfig(8) icmd(8) idiscover(8) ievents(8) ifru(8) igetevent(8) ilan(8) ireset(8) isel(8) isensor(8) iserial(8) isol(8) iwdt(8)

⚠️ WARNINGS ⚠️

see http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/ for the latest version of ipmiutil and any bug fix list. bookmark it, bestie, fr fr. 🔥

📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

Copyright (C) 2009 Kontron America, Inc.

see the file COPYING in the distribution for more details regarding redistribution.

this utility is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. read that again. no warranty. none. zero. 💀

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Andy Cress <arcress at users.sourceforge.net>

and that's the whole page, bestie!! version 1.1, dated 17 Feb 2010, and she still ate. go check your BMC health, you deserve a system that's thriving 💖✨🎀