NAME

conserver-ipmisetpass - ipmitool wrapper for resetting the IPMI root password on a remote machine

SYNOPSIS

conserver-ipmisetpass [-hv] [-I channel] bmchostname

DESCRIPTION

A wrapper to ipmitool(1) used (once-only, at system-install time) to reset the ``root'' password of a remote machine's Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) to an installation's ``standard'' root password.

This wrapper is supplied by the lcfg-conserver(8) component, and must be invoked by the system root user.

bmchostname

Hostname (or IP address) of the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) on the host on which the IPMI root password is to be changed by ipmitool.

-I channel

Selects the IPMI interface to be used. Must be either `lanplus' (for IPMI v2.0) or `lan' (for IPMI v1.5). The default is `lanplus'.

-h

Output help information, and terminate.

-v

Run in verbose mode.

SEE ALSO

ipmitool(1), lcfg-conserver(8)

PLATFORMS

Fedora3, Fedora5, Fedora6, Scientific5

AUTHOR

Ian Durkacz <idurkacz@inf.ed.ac.uk>