pythonipmitool

How to get the IPMI address of a server?


I'm writing a Python program that collect information about the host it's running on.

Among the information to be collected is the IPMI address.

After some googling, I discovered a command line tool called ipmitool, but I had no idea how to make it output the IPMI address.


Solution

  • In one of my Ubuntu 14.04 server with IPMI, sudo ipmitool lan print gives an output including the IPMI management interface IP.

    
    Set in Progress         : Set Complete
    Auth Type Support       : NONE MD2 MD5 PASSWORD
    Auth Type Enable        : Callback : MD2 MD5
                            : User     : MD2 MD5
                            : Operator : MD2 MD5
                            : Admin    : MD2 MD5
                            : OEM      :
    IP Address Source       : Static Address
    IP Address              : 10.0.3.80
    Subnet Mask             : 255.255.0.0
    MAC Address             : f0:..:..:..:..:..
    SNMP Community String   : public
    IP Header               : TTL=0x40 Flags=0x40 Precedence=0x00 TOS=0x10
    BMC ARP Control         : ARP Responses Enabled, Gratuitous ARP Disabled
    Gratituous ARP Intrvl   : 2.0 seconds
    Default Gateway IP      : 10.0.0.1
    Default Gateway MAC     : 00:00:00:00:00:00
    Backup Gateway IP       : 0.0.0.0
    Backup Gateway MAC      : 00:00:00:00:00:00
    802.1q VLAN ID          : Disabled
    802.1q VLAN Priority    : 0
    RMCP+ Cipher Suites     : 0,1,...
    Cipher Suite Priv Max   : Xa...