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author | Jörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net> | 2022-12-30 09:42:45 +0100 |
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committer | Jörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net> | 2022-12-30 09:42:45 +0100 |
commit | ed0b5b72b62ca1829e103f8ce768e56a49d82ba4 (patch) | |
tree | 99494f65f603b722b5ec27c46b06cb7ec485777c /doc/ipmitool.1.in | |
parent | 88b45b58e4b735f801b7742ef35eb4fef3d8a140 (diff) |
IANA URL: Fix file name on man pages, add d/NEWS.Debian
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1 files changed, 43 insertions, 43 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ipmitool.1.in b/doc/ipmitool.1.in index 13ab35e..1a07cb1 100644 --- a/doc/ipmitool.1.in +++ b/doc/ipmitool.1.in @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ ipmitool \- utility for controlling IPMI\-enabled devices .SH "SYNOPSIS" -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool [ <options> ] <command> [ <sub-commands and sub-options> ] <options> := [ <general-options> | <conditional-opts> ] @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ On Solaris this driver is called \fIBMC\fP and is included in Solaris 10. Management of a remote station requires the IPMI\-over\-LAN interface to be enabled and configured. Depending on the particular requirements of each system it may be possible to enable the LAN interface using -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool over the system interface. .SH "OPTIONS" .TP @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ IPMI v2.0 specification. The default is 17 which specifies RAKP\-HMAC\-SHA256 authentication, HMAC\-SHA256\-128 integrity, and AES\-CBC\-128 encryption algorithms. NOTE: In -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool 1.8.18 and earlier the default was 3, which was insecure and was not supported by some more recent BMC implementations. .TP @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ Change Size of Communication Channel. (OEM) .LP If no password method is specified then -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool will prompt the user for a password. If no password is entered at the prompt, the remote server password will default to NULL. .SH "SECURITY" @@ -267,17 +267,17 @@ local station. For IPMI v1.5, the maximum password length is 16 characters; longer passwords might be truncated or rejected by the server, or rejected by -.BR ipmitool . +.br ipmitool . For IPMI v2.0, the maximum password length is 20 characters; longer passwords will be rejected by -.BR ipmitool . +.br ipmitool . .SH "COMMANDS" .TP \fIhelp\fP This can be used to get command\-line help on -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool commands. It may also be placed at the end of commands to get option usage help. > ipmitool help @@ -1223,7 +1223,7 @@ Get a list of all the possible Sensor States and pre-defined Sensor State Shortcuts available for a particular sensor. \fBsensorid\fR is the character string representation of the sensor and must be enclosed in double quotes if it includes white space. Several different commands including -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool \fIsensor list\fP may be used to obtain a list that includes the \fBsensorid\fR strings representing the sensors on a given system. .RS @@ -1287,7 +1287,7 @@ Finding sensor PS 2T Fan Fault... ok .RS Execute -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool commands from \fIfilename\fR. Each line is a complete command. The syntax of the commands are defined by the COMMANDS section in this manpage. Each line may have an optional @@ -1698,7 +1698,7 @@ user, operator, admin, oem. .br Causes -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool to enter Intel IPMI v1.5 Serial Over LAN mode. An RMCP+ connection is made to the BMC, the terminal is set to raw mode, and user input is sent to the serial console on the remote server. On exit, @@ -1752,7 +1752,7 @@ Select the next boot order on the Kontron CP6012. These commands will allow you to configure IPMI LAN channels with network information so they can be used with the -..BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool \fIlan\fP and \fIlanplus\fP interfaces. \fINOTE\fR: To determine on which channel the LAN interface is located, issue the `channel info \fInumber\fR' command until you come across @@ -2035,7 +2035,7 @@ Display the Management Controller Globally Unique IDentifier. .br This is the default behavior for -.BR ipmitool (1). +.br ipmitool (1). Try to automatically detect the encoding based on the value of the version field and (for version 1) the timestamp. The version is @@ -2049,11 +2049,11 @@ neither one has that, then the precedence order is as follows: \fIsmbios\fP, \fIipmi\fP, \fIrfc4122\fP. If neither encoding yields a valid version field, then -.BR ipmitool (1) +.br ipmitool (1) defaults to \fIdump\fP mode. If this option is in use, then -.BR ipmitool (1) +.br ipmitool (1) will also print out the detected encoding and warn regarding IPMI specification violation if the encoding isn't \fIipmi\fP. @@ -2551,7 +2551,7 @@ Discover Node Manager presence as well as the Node Manager version, revision, an .br Add a new power policy, or overwrite an existing policy. -The \fIcorrection\fP parameter is the agressiveness of frequency limiting, default is auto. +The \fIcorrection\fP parameter is the aggressiveness of frequency limiting, default is auto. The \fItrig_lim\fP is the correction time limit and must be at least 6000 and not greater than 65535. The \fIstats\fP setting is the averaging period in seconds and ranges from 1-65535. If domain is not supplied a default of platform is used. @@ -2562,7 +2562,7 @@ If domain is not supplied a default of platform is used. .br Add a new inlet temp policy, or overwrite an existing policy. -The \fIcorrection\fP parameter is the agressiveness of frequency limiting, default is auto. +The \fIcorrection\fP parameter is the aggressiveness of frequency limiting, default is auto. The \fItrig_lim\fP is the correction time limit and must be at least 6000 and not greater than 65535. The \fIstats\fP setting is the averaging period in seconds and ranges from 1-65535. If domain is not supplied a default of platform is used. @@ -2960,7 +2960,7 @@ A list of all entity ids can be found in the IPMI specifications. Dumps raw SDR data to a file. This data file can then be used as a local SDR cache of the remote managed system with the \fI\-S <file>\fP option on the -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool command line. This can greatly improve performance over system interface or remote LAN. .TP @@ -3045,7 +3045,7 @@ Print information on the specified SEL Record entry. Save SEL records to a text file that can be fed back into the \fIevent file\fP -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool command. This can be useful for testing Event generation by building an appropriate Platform Event Message file based on existing events. Please see the @@ -3056,14 +3056,14 @@ the format of this file. Save SEL records to a file in raw, binary format. This file can be fed back to the \fIsel readraw\fP -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool command for viewing. .TP \fIreadraw\fP <\fBfile\fR> Read and display SEL records from a binary file. Such a file can be created using the \fIsel writeraw\fP -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool command. .TP \fItime\fP @@ -3194,10 +3194,10 @@ Verbosity level. .RS This command will launch an interactive shell which you can use to send multiple -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool commands to a BMC and see the responses. This can be useful instead of running the full -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool command each time. Some commands will make use of a Sensor Data Record cache and you will see marked improvement in speed if these commands are able to reuse the same cache in a shell session. LAN sessions @@ -3275,7 +3275,7 @@ by the IPMI over serial channel. .br Causes -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool to enter Serial Over LAN mode, and is only available when using the lanplus interface. An RMCP+ connection is made to the BMC, @@ -3568,7 +3568,7 @@ Determine whether a password has been stored as 16 or 20 bytes. .SH "OPEN INTERFACE" The -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool \fIopen\fP interface utilizes the OpenIPMI kernel device driver. This driver is present in all modern 2.4 and all 2.6 kernels and it should be present in recent @@ -3579,7 +3579,7 @@ the OpenIPMI homepage. The required kernel modules is different for 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. The following kernel modules must be loaded on a 2.4\-based kernel in order for -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool to work: .TP .B ipmi_msghandler @@ -3593,7 +3593,7 @@ Linux character device interface for the message handler. .LP The following kernel modules must be loaded on a 2.6\-based kernel in order for -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool to work: .TP .B ipmi_msghandler @@ -3622,12 +3622,12 @@ entry with: .I mknod /dev/ipmi0 c 254 0 -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool includes some sample initialization scripts that can perform this task automatically at start\-up. In order to have -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool use the OpenIPMI device interface you can specify it on the command line: .PP @@ -3652,16 +3652,16 @@ The following files are associated with the bmc driver: Character device node used to communicate with the bmc driver. .SH "LIPMI INTERFACE" The -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool \fIlipmi\fP interface uses the Solaris 9 IPMI kernel device driver. It has been superceeded by the \fIbmc\fP interface on Solaris 10. You can tell -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool to use this interface by specifying it on the command line. > ipmitool \fB\-I\fR \fIlipmi\fP <\fIexpression\fP> .SH "LAN INTERFACE" The -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool \fIlan\fP interface communicates with the BMC over an Ethernet LAN connection using UDP under IPv4. UDP datagrams are formatted to contain IPMI request/response @@ -3676,12 +3676,12 @@ The LAN interface is an authentication multi\-session connection; messages delivered to the BMC can (and should) be authenticated with a challenge/response protocol with either straight password/key or MD5 message\-digest algorithm. -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool will attempt to connect with administrator privilege level as this is required to perform chassis power functions. You can tell -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool to use the lan interface with the \fB\-I\fR \fIlan\fP option: @@ -3692,7 +3692,7 @@ to use the lan interface with the A hostname must be given on the command line in order to use the lan interface with \fBipmitool\fR. The password field is optional; if you do not provide a password on the command line, -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool will attempt to connect without authentication. If you specify a password it will use MD5 authentication if supported by the BMC and straight password/key otherwise, unless overridden with a @@ -3706,14 +3706,14 @@ specification. RMCP+ allows for improved authentication and data integrity checks, as well as encryption and the ability to carry multiple types of payloads. Generic Serial Over LAN support requires RMCP+, so the -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool \fIsol activate\fP command requires the use of the \fIlanplus\fP interface. RMCP+ session establishment uses a symmetric challenge\-response protocol called RAKP (\fBRemote Authenticated Key\-Exchange Protocol\fR) which allows the negotiation of many options. -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool does not yet allow the user to specify the value of every option, defaulting to the most obvious settings marked as required in the v2.0 @@ -3721,14 +3721,14 @@ specification. Authentication and integrity HMACS are produced with SHA1, and encryption is performed with AES\-CBC\-128. Role\-level logins are not yet supported. -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool must be linked with the \fIOpenSSL\fP library in order to perform the encryption functions and support the \fIlanplus\fP interface. If the required packages are not found it will not be compiled in and supported. You can tell -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool to use the lanplus interface with the \fB\-I\fR \fIlanplus\fP option: @@ -3749,17 +3749,17 @@ and encryption algorithms to use for for \fIlanplus\fP session based on the cipher suite ID found in the IPMIv2.0 specification in table 22\-20. The default cipher suite is \fI17\fP which specifies RAKP\-HMAC\-SHA256 authentication, HMAC\-SHA256\-128 integrity, and -AES\-CBC\-128 encryption algorightms. +AES\-CBC\-128 encryption algorithms. .SH "FREE INTERFACE" .LP The -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool \fIfree\fP interface utilizes the FreeIPMI libfreeipmi drivers. .LP You can tell -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool to use the FreeIPMI interface with the \-I option: .PP > ipmitool \fB\-I\fR \fIfree\fP <\fIcommand\fP> @@ -3768,12 +3768,12 @@ to use the FreeIPMI interface with the \-I option: .SH "IMB INTERFACE" .LP The -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool \fIimb\fP interface supports the Intel IMB (Intel Inter-module Bus) Interface through the /dev/imb device. .LP You can tell -.BR ipmitool +.br ipmitool to use the IMB interface with the \-I option: .PP > ipmitool \fB\-I\fR \fIimb\fP <\fIcommand\fP> |