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new tool release: zipmi

August 17, 2026

zipmi – https://github.com/zenfish/zipmi – is a pure-Python IPMI/BMC stack — an `ipmitool`-style CLI plus a library where every byte is an inspectable and mangleable object. Built for people/AI (are AIs...

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Get Device ID (moar IPMI… yawn….)

October 12, 2014

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....

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https server

March 11, 2014

In conjunction with the openssl scripts… a little bit of python code to fire up an ssl server… lots of them out there, this one is mine. #!/usr/bin/env python #...

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dump supermicro stuff

January 25, 2014

A trivial utility to dump password/account information from a special file found on a SM BMC (see this R7 post about the PSBlock file.) (Later edit – put a new...

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ITAR

February 26, 2013

Well, not really.  Actually I.tar.gz.  In the gzip’d tar there are 3 files; little IPMI/BMC configuration file sucker, a suggested set of security recommendations that could be checked, and an...

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one packet auditing

January 26, 2013

Not all packets are equal. If you send a single UDP packet to port 623 that contains an “Get Channel Authentication Capabilities” (see secion 22.13 of the IPMI v2 spec),...