Some basic steps for configuring IPMI from the cli for a supermicro server, but similar can be applied to any other.

Centos:
yum install ipmitool.x86_64
modprobe ipmi_msghandler
modprobe ipmi_devintf
modprobe ipmi_si

FreeBSD:
pkg install ipmitool
echo 'ipmi_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf
kldload ipmi

Debian:
modprobe ipmi_devintf; modprobe ipmi_si

bash# ipmitool lan set 1 ipsrc static
bash# ipmitool lan set 1 ipaddr 192.168.1.211
Setting LAN IP Address to 192.168.1.211
bash# ipmitool lan set 1 netmask 255.255.255.0
Setting LAN Subnet Mask to 255.255.255.0
bash# ipmitool lan set 1 defgw ipaddr 192.168.1.254
Setting LAN Default Gateway IP to 192.168.1.254
bash# ipmitool lan set 1 arp respond on
Enabling BMC-generated ARP responses
bash# ipmitool lan set 1 auth ADMIN MD5
bash# ipmitool lan set 1 access on

Newer Supermicro IPMI interfaces come configured by default in “failover” mode which means that the IPMI will bind to either the dedicated IPMI NIC port or share with one the the machine NIC ports.

This can cause IPMI to payid withdrawal casinos australia come up on wrong NIC and hence be inaccessible if the dedicated NIC doesn’t detect a link.

You can use ipmitool to change this behavour

First query the current setting:

ipmitool raw 0x30 0x70 0x0c 0

The result will be one of the following

0x00 = Dedicated
0x01 = Onboard / Shared
0x02 = Failover

Next to configure it you can use one of the following.

For older models:

ipmitool raw 0x30 0x70 0x0c 1 1 0

For X9 and fairly new motherboards:

ipmitool raw 0x30 0x70 0x0c 1 0

Adding an extra user via the console

This assumes that this is the first new user other than the existing ADMIN

ipmitool -I open user set name 3 dave
ipmitool -I open user set password 3 mypassword
ipmitool -I open user priv 3 4 1