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  • unpacking Dell’s iDRAC schtuff

    I hadn’t look at Dell’s iDRAC stuff in forever… and it appeared they’d changed some of the formatting of the iDRAC updates/etc. since then. I didn’t see anything out there, so here’s what I used. First, grab an update – for instance, at – https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=wn31m – I grabbed “iDRAC-with-Lifecycle-Controller_Firmware_WN31M_LN64_7.20.30.50_A00.BIN” On the windows EXE file at…

  • Remotely Access Live Supermicro Firmware+

    TLDR; a vendor supported/supplied utility allows download of live BMC1 firmware/configuration on (at least) some SuperMicro BMCs. It’s hard to tell who might be affected, but the utility used was written by ATEN Technology, ASRock ASPEED, and others all seem to be connected in various ways in not only SuperMicro firmware but the rest of…

  • trivial command line…..

    Was just noticing the shell option in ipmitool.. wondered if you could echo a set of commands to it via stdin, and sure enough… the final bit is sending it a ctrl^D via \003 and echo -e. This sends a chassis power status as well as a sol, channel, and mc info to BMC –…

  • Get Device ID (moar IPMI… yawn….)

    I’d had this sitting around for awhile and thought I’d take another look at it; in this I simply toss out an IPMI Get Device ID command and see what happens. This is an interesting one; the GUID is a Vendor Specific ID – the specification says that it’s “a unique number per device”, and that…

  • mega mega mega… chan chan chan….

    Or… Notes on the IPMI Protocol Security Model. I wrote in Sold Down the River about the curious aspects of channels and authentication and users and all that stuff. Here’s a slimmed down model… and as a bonus a program that iterates through all the channels, users types, and authentication for a host, which is…

  • Even more IPMI, woohoo!

    I wrote a small paper surveying the scene of IPMI in the wild – Sold Down the River – the title of which might give you some clue as to make on the situation. Used to be folks used guns to rob us… computers make everything so much easier!