Supermicro Ipmicfg Utility

How To Change IPMI Settings on SuperMicro in Windows

Mar 10, 2020  Recently I’ve had an opportunity to work with SuperMicro servers that have been new to me. SuperMicro servers will be are managed remotely utilizing the IPMI interface. In this text I’ll attempt to present fundamental steps of IPMI configuration and inform about extra instruments, instructions and strategies of SuperMicro server remotely administration. Steps to reset a Supermicro IPMICFG password – Windows method: Download the latest IPMICFG utility released by Supermicro; Copy the extracted contents to your server; Open a command window as administrator (this will not work from a normal command window) Change directory to the ipmicfg-win.exe appropriate for your architecture (32-bit or 64-bit).

After receiving new SuperMicro hardware was tasked with server hardening. One of the many over looked tasks is changing the default password on the remote access. This post explains how to set the various parameters used by IPMI on SuperMicro servers.

Dvb t software. The IPMI (aka iLo, DRAC) on SuperMicro Servers is maintained by using the IPMICFG tool.

Download the utility from ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/utility/IPMICFG/

In this post I have installed ipmicfg tool to the C:supportipmicfg directory. So all paths and commands will reference in that directory.

Open a command prompt:

cd c:supportipmicfg

List users
IPMICFG-Windows.exe -user list

Change the password for the admin user
IPMICFG-Windows.exe -user setpwd 2 <new password>

Delete a User. Delete by ID and not name.

c:Supportipmicfg>ipmicfg-win.exe -user list
Maximum number of Users : 10
Count of currently enabled Users : 3
User ID User Name Privilege Level Enable
——- ———– ————— ——
2 ADMIN Administrator Yes
3 root Administrator Yes

c:Supportipmicfg>ipmicfg-win.exe -user del 3
Done.

c:Supportipmicfg>ipmicfg-win.exe -user list
Maximum number of Users : 10
Count of currently enabled Users : 2
User ID User Name Privilege Level Enable
——- ———– ————— ——
2 ADMIN Administrator Yes

Show the gateway
IPMICFG-Windows.exe -g

Set the Gateway
IPMICFG-Windows.exe -g 192.168.1.1

Show subnet mask
IPMICFG-Windows.exe -k

Set subnet mask
IPMICFG-Windows.exe -k 255.255.255.0

Show IP and MAC
IPMICFG-Windows.exe -m

Set IP
IPMICFG-Windows.exe -m 192.168.1.50

Disable DHCP
IPMICFG-Windows.exe -dhcp off

Reset to the factory default
IPMICFG-Windows.exe –fd

Download IPMI Config to a text file
IPMICFG-Windows.exe –conf tdownload <file>

Hopefully this helps get your server set to the properties and security for your specifications.

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