IPMI Compliance and LAN Channel Access
The server supports IPMI through the SP software version 2.0 and later. These servers meet compliance standards for IPMI version 1.5.
The IPMI implementation on these servers also support LAN channel access. (Refer to the IPMI specification version 1.5 for details.) The LAN channel access is disabled by default. To enable it, use the ipmi enable channel command and specify the ID of the channel to enable for the LAN Interface, as follows.
Note – This ID is
#ssh spipaddr
For more information about enabling or disabling the IPMI channel, refer to Appendix B.
Usernames and Passwords
Operator and
Note – For security reasons, the LAN channel access is disabled by default.
Note – IPMI user identities are in no way associated with user accounts defined for
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