I recently bought second-hand a HP Proliant N36L Microserver, and I'm having trouble configuring it for remote access on Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS.
It came with a HP Remote Access card, but when I try to access its web server (following this setup guide) and enter the default credentials ("admin" / "password"), the credentials are incorrect.
The remote access card user manual (page 63) gives a method to reset the credentials:
Under Linux shell:
Get the user name:
ipmitool raw 0x6 0x46 0x02(the value “2” is the User ID)
Set user password:
ipmitool raw 0x6 0x47 0x02 0x02+password(Password is ASCI value: 16 bytes)
The problem I have is that when I try and run the ipmitool command, I am presented with the following error message:
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory
There is a similar known issue in that additional "Configuration Required for IPMITOOL Management Utility to Function on any HP ProLiant Server With an Integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO 2) and Running Ubuntu Linux 9.04 Server"
It states you need to load the following modules with the following commands:
modprobe ipmi_msghandler
modprobe ipmi_devintf
modprobe ipmi_si
... which I have done, to get ipmitool to work.
I've also added them to the /etc/modules files so they load during boot.
When I run lsmod | grep ipmi, I get the following:
ipmi_devintf 65536 0
ipmi_si 20480 0
ipmi_msghandler 106496 2 ipmi_devintf,ipmi_si
so clearly the modules have been loaded and are running... right?
From what I understand, in Ubuntu, the ipmi service/daemon starts automatically when these commands are run.
Despite all this, even when I run the ipmitool command without any arguments, it fails with the main Could not open device at... error.
Why isn't the /dev/ipim0 device being created automatically?
Do I need to create the /dev/ipim0 device manually?
I did try to create the device manually following this guide but even afterwards the ipmitool command still gave the same error.
How can I solve this issue?
