IRESET(8)

💖 IRESET(8) — System Manager's Manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to ipmiutil_reset from the System Manager's Manual section 8 — she's the friend who can straight up power-cycle a whole chassis for you and she is NOT subtle about it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

ipmiutil_reset — perform a hardware reset on the system 🔥

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ipmiutil reset [-bcdDefhijmnoprsuwxy -N node -U user -P/-R pswd -EFJTVY]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so ipmiutil reset is that girl 💅 she uses IPMI commands to do a hardware reset of the chassis, or to boot the whole thing to a specific device instead. main character energy fr.

and the way she's flexible?? she can talk through /dev/ipmi0 from OpenIPMI, or /dev/imb from Intel, or /dev/ipmikcs from valinux, or she'll do direct user-space IOs, or — plot twist — she'll go over the IPMI LAN interface if you hand her -N. options, she has them. periodt ✨

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

command line options are described below, and yes we're going through every single one because nobody gets left out in this house 🫶

• -c — Power Cycle the system chassis 🔄
• -d — Power Down the system chassis 😴
• -n — Send NMI to the system 💀
• -u — Power Up the system chassis ⚡
• -r — Hard Reset the system chassis 💥
• -D — do a soft shutdown of the OS, and then power down. heads up bestie: remote soft shutdown (-D -N) for Intel S5000 baseboard requires ipmiutil getevt -a running on the target server 👀
• -o — do a soft shutdown of the OS, and then reset. and same lil caveat: remote soft shutdown (-o -N) for Intel S5000 baseboard requires ipmiutil getevt -a running on the target server 👀
• -k — do a cold reset to restart the BMC firmware 🧊
• -m 002000s — perform these function for a specific MC (e.g. bus 00, sa 20, lun 00). the trailing character, if present, indicates SMI addressing if s, or IPMB addressing if i or not present 🎯
• -b — do a hard reset and reboot to the BIOS Setup menu, for this reboot only 🛠️
• -e — do a hard reset to EFI, if IPMI EFI boot is enabled, for this reboot only 🌱
• -f — do a hard reset to Floppy/Removable, for this reboot only 💾
• -h — do a hard reset to a Hard Disk, for this reboot only 🖴
• -i — set the boot Initiator mailbox string, usually for PXE use. the string must be less than 78 characters ✍️
• -j — set the IANA number used for the boot Initiator mailbox string 🔢
• -p — do a hard reset and network boot to PXE server, for this reboot only 🌐
• -s — do a hard reset and reboot to the Service/Diagnostic Partition, for this reboot only. reboots to the default if no service partition is configured 🧰
• -v — do a hard reset to DVD/CDROM Media, for this reboot only 📀
• -w — wait for BMC ready after a reset before exiting the utility ⏳
• -x — causes extra debug messages to be displayed 🔍
• -y — yes, try to persist any boot options used [-befhprsv]. this requires the IPMI firmware to ask the BIOS to change boot order settings, so it may not be supported by all BMC firmware vendors 😬
• -N nodename — nodename or IP address of the remote target system. if a nodename is specified, 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 🔑
• -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 🌍
• -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 🚗
• -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 🌈

she runs with a whole squad, fr fr:

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

⚠️ WARNINGS ⚠️

bestie, go check http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/ for the latest version of ipmiutil and any bug fix list 👀 no cap.

💜 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 🫠

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Andy Cress <arcress at users.sourceforge.net> — legend behaviour, honestly 🎀

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie: Version 1.5, dated 01 Jul 2011, brought to you from the System Manager's Manual, section 8, IRESET(8). slay 💅✨🌸