IPMI firmware Updates

ByReuben February 27, 2018March 3, 2018

Supermicro IPMI firmware source:
http://www.supermicro.com/support/bios/firmware0.aspx

Manual:
ftp://supermicro.com/CDR-X9-UP_1.22_for_Intel_X9_UP_platform/IPMI/IPMICFG/Supermicro_Utility_User_Guide_IPMICFG.pdf

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Find your motherboard info

Windows—-
launch dxdiag tool from the start menu

Linux—-
# dmidecode -t 2

yum -y install OpenIPMI
service ipmi start
chkconfig ipmi on

mkdir /ipmi

cd /ipmi

wget “ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/utility/IPMICFG/IPMICFG_1.27.0_build.170620.zip”

unzip IPMICFG_1.27.0_build.170620.zip

chmod -R u+rwx IPMICFG_1.27.0_build.170620/Linux/64bit/IPMICFG-Linux.x86_64

cd IPMICFG_1.27.0_build.170620/Linux/64bit/

./IPMICFG-Linux.x86_64 -dhcp off

./IPMICFG-Linux.x86_64 -m
./IPMICFG-Linux.x86_64 -k
./IPMICFG-Linux.x86_64 -g

cd ..

rm -Rf /ipmi

Resources:

http://forum.likg.org.ua/ipmi/ipmicfg-utility-how-to-reset-ipmi-to-the-factory-defaults-t455.html

https://alnitech.com/2014/10/supermicro-ipmi-device-configuration-using-ipmicfg/

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