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-A <authtype>
Specify an authentication type to use during IPMIv1.5 lan session activation. Supported types
are NONE, PASSWORD, MD5, or OEM.
-c Present output in CSV (comma separated variable) format. This is not available with all
commands.
-C <ciphersuite>
The remote server authentication, integrity, and encryption algorithms to use for IPMIv2 lanplus
connections. See table 22-19 in the IPMIv2 specification. The default is 3 which specifies RAKP-
HMAC-SHA1 authentication, HMAC-SHA1-96 integrity, and AES-CBC-128 encryption algorightms.
-E The remote server password is specified by the environment variable IPMI_PASSWORD.
-f <password_file>
Specifies a file containing the remote server password. If this option is absent, or if
password_file is empty, the password will default to NULL.
-h Get basic usage help from the command line.
-H <address>
Remote server address, can be IP address or hostname. This option is required for lan and
lanplus interfaces.
-I <interface>
Selects IPMI interface to use. Supported interfaces that are compiled in are visible in the usage
help output.
-L <privlvl>
Force session privilege level. Can be CALLBACK, USER, OPERATOR, ADMIN. Default is ADMIN.
-m <local_address>
Set the local IPMB address. The default is 0x20 and there should be no need to change it for
normal operation.
-o <oemtype>
Select OEM type to support. This usually involves minor hacks in place in the code to work
around quirks in various BMCs from various manufacturers. Use -o list to see a list of current
supported OEM types.
-p <port>
Remote server UDP port to connect to. Default is 623.
-P <password>
Remote server password is specified on the command line. If supported it will be obscured in
the process list. Note! Specifying the password as a command line option is not recommended.
-t <target_address>
Bridge IPMI requests to the remote target address.
-U <username>
Remote server username, default is NULL user.
-v Increase verbose output level. This option may be specified multiple times to increase the level
of debug output. If given three times you will get hexdumps of all incoming and outgoing
packets.
-V Display version information.
If no password method is specified, then ipmitool will prompt the user for a password. If no password is
entered at the prompt, the remote server password will default to NULL.
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