Ubuntu Manpage: ipmievd - IPMI event daemon for sending events to syslog

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NAME

       ipmievd - IPMI event daemon for sending events to syslog

SYNOPSIS

       ipmievd [-c|-h|-d N|-v|-V] -I open <open | sel> [<option>]

       ipmievd [-c|-h|-v|-V] -I lan -H <hostname>
               [-p <port>]
               [-U <username>]
               [-A <authtype>]
               [-L <privlvl>]
               [-a|-E|-P|-f <password>]
               [-o <oemtype>]
               [-O <sel oem>]
               sel [<option>]

       ipmievd [-c|-h|-v|-V] -I lanplus -H <hostname>
               [-p <port>]
               [-U <username>]
               [-L <privlvl>]
               [-a|-E|-P|-f <password>]
               [-o <oemtype>]
               [-O <sel oem>]
               [-C <ciphersuite>]
               sel [<option>]

DESCRIPTION

       ipmievd is a daemon which will listen for events from the BMC that are being sent to the SEL and also log
       those messages to syslog.  It is able to run in one of two modes: either using the Event  Message  Buffer
       and  asynchronous  event notification from the OpenIPMI kernel driver or actively polling the contents of
       the SEL for new events.  Upon receipt of an event via either mechanism it will be logged to  syslog  with
       the LOG_LOCAL4 facility.

       It is based on the ipmitool utility and shares the same IPMI interface support and session setup options.
       Please see the ipmitool manpage for more information on supported IPMI interfaces.

OPTIONS

-a Prompt for the remote server password.

-A <authtype>
Specify an authentication type to use during IPMIv1.5 lan session activation. Supported types are
NONE, PASSWORD, MD2, MD5, or OEM.

-c Present output in CSV (comma separated variable) format. This is not available with all commands.

-C <ciphersuite>
The remote server authentication, integrity, and encryption algorithms to use for IPMIv2 lanplus
connections. See table 22-19 in the IPMIv2 specification. The default is 3 which specifies
RAKP-HMAC-SHA1 authentication, HMAC-SHA1-96 integrity, and AES-CBC-128 encryption algorightms.

-E The remote server password is specified by the environment variable IPMI_PASSWORD.

-f <password_file>
Specifies a file containing the remote server password. If this option is absent, or if
password_file is empty, the password will default to NULL.

-h Get basic usage help from the command line.

-H <address>
Remote server address, can be IP address or hostname. This option is required for lan and lanplus
interfaces.

-I <interface>
Selects IPMI interface to use. Supported interfaces that are compiled in are visible in the usage
help output.

-L <privlvl>
Force session privilege level. Can be CALLBACK, USER, OPERATOR, ADMIN. Default is ADMIN.

-m <local_address>
Set the local IPMB address. The default is 0x20 and there should be no need to change it for
normal operation.

-o <oemtype>
Select OEM type to support. This usually involves minor hacks in place in the code to work around
quirks in various BMCs from various manufacturers. Use -o list to see a list of current supported
OEM types.

-O <sel oem>
Open selected file and read OEM SEL event descriptions to be used during SEL listings. See
examples in contrib dir for file format.

-p <port>
Remote server UDP port to connect to. Default is 623.

-P <password>
Remote server password is specified on the command line. If supported it will be obscured in the
process list. Note! Specifying the password as a command line option is not recommended.

-S <sdr_cache_file>
Use local file for remote SDR cache. Using a local SDR cache can drastically increase performance
for commands that require knowledge of the entire SDR to perform their function.

-t <target_address>
Bridge IPMI requests to the remote target address.

-U <username>
Remote server username, default is NULL user.

-d N Use device number N to specify the /dev/ipmiN (or /dev/ipmi/N or /dev/ipmidev/N) device to use for
in-band BMC communication. Used to target a specific BMC on a multi-node, multi-BMC system
through the ipmi device driver interface. Default is 0.

-v Increase verbose output level. This option may be specified multiple times to increase the level
of debug output. If given three times you will get hexdumps of all incoming and outgoing packets.

-V Display version information.

If no password method is specified then ipmievd will prompt the user for a password. If no password is
entered at the prompt, the remote server password will default to NULL.

COMMANDS

help This can be used to get command-line help. It may also be placed at the end of commands to get
option usage help.

> ipmievd help
Commands:
open Use OpenIPMI for asynchronous notification of events
sel Poll SEL for notification of events

open This command starts ipmievd with the OpenIPMI event watching mechanism which relies on the Event
Message Buffer feature of IPMI. This requires a properly installed and configured OpenIPMI driver
on Linux and is only valid to be run through the open interface. See the ipmitool manpage and
associated documentation for more information on setting up the OpenIPMI driver.

Note: Some BMC do not support the Event Message Buffer required for this command. Other BMCs
claim to support it but do not actually deliver events to it. If this is the case please use the
sel method.

daemon Launch process as a daemon and reparent to init process. All messages will be sent to
syslog. This is the default action.

nodaemon
Do NOT become a daemon, instead log all messages to stderr.

pidfile=<filename>
Save process ID to this file when in daemon mode. Defaults to /var/run/ipmievd.pidN (where
N is the ipmi device number -- defaults to 0).

sel This command starts ipmievd with the SEL Polling event watching mechanism. This will poll the SEL
periodically to determine if new events have been logged. This command should work with all BMCs
and is capable of using the LAN interface as well to monitor a remote system and log its events to
a local syslog.