Command line options are described below.
-c Power Cycle the system chassis
-d Power Down the system chassis
-n Send NMI to the system
-u Power Up the system chassis
-r Hard Reset the system chassis
-D Do a soft shutdown of the OS, and then power down. Note that remote soft shutdown (-D -N) for
Intel S5000 baseboard requires ipmiutil getevt -a running on the target server.
-o Do a soft shutdown of the OS, and then reset. Note that remote soft shutdown (-o -N) for Intel
S5000 baseboard requires ipmiutil getevt -a running on the target server.
-k Do a cold reset to restart the BMC firmware.
-m 002000s
Perform these function for a specific MC (e.g. bus 00, sa 20, lun 00). The trailing character, if
present, indicates SMI addressing if 's', or IPMB addressing if 'i' or not present.
-b Do a hard reset and reboot to the BIOS Setup menu, for this reboot only.
-e Do a hard reset to EFI, if IPMI EFI boot is enabled, for this reboot only.
-f Do a hard reset to Floppy/Removable, for this reboot only.
-h Do a hard reset to a Hard Disk, for this reboot only.
-i Set the boot Initiator mailbox string, usually for PXE use. The string must be less than 78
characters.
-j Set the IANA number used for the boot Initiator mailbox string.
-p Do a hard reset and network boot to PXE server, for this reboot only.
-s Do a hard reset and reboot to the Service/Diagnostic Partition, for this reboot only. Reboots to
the default if no service partition is configured.
-v Do a hard reset to DVD/CDROM Media, for this reboot only.
-w Wait for BMC ready after a reset before exiting the utility.
-x Causes extra debug messages to be displayed.
-y Yes, try to persist any boot options used [-befhprsv]. This requires the IPMI firmware to ask the
BIOS to change boot order settings, so it may not be supported by all BMC firmware vendors.
-N nodename
Nodename or IP address of the remote target system. If a nodename is specified, IPMI LAN
interface is used. Otherwise the local system management interface is used.
-P/-R rmt_pswd
Remote password for the nodename given. The default is a null password.
-U rmt_user
Remote username for the nodename given. The default is a null username.
-E Use the remote password from Environment variable IPMI_PASSWORD.
-F drv_t
Force the driver type to one of the followng: imb, va, open, gnu, landesk, lan, lan2, lan2i, kcs,
smb. Note that lan2i means lan2 with intelplus. The default is to detect any available driver
type and use it.
-J Use the specified LanPlus cipher suite (0 thru 17): 0=none/none/none, 1=sha1/none/none,
2=sha1/sha1/none, 3=sha1/sha1/cbc128, 4=sha1/sha1/xrc4_128, 5=sha1/sha1/xrc4_40, 6=md5/none/none,
... 14=md5/md5/xrc4_40. Default is 3.
-T Use a specified IPMI LAN Authentication Type: 0=None, 1=MD2, 2=MD5, 4=Straight Password, 5=OEM.
-V Use a specified IPMI LAN privilege level. 1=Callback level, 2=User level, 3=Operator level,
4=Administrator level (default), 5=OEM level.
-Y Yes, do prompt the user for the IPMI LAN remote password. Alternatives for the password are -E or
-P.