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 asyncronous 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.