IPMI Problems

[Shooterdude34]

Hello all,

 

So i have a NAS i put together, originally with an X8DTH-i, but that dropped 2 memory channels. So i swapped in an X8DTE-F, which now has IPMI. i dont have much ipmi experience, the only other board i have with it is an x99 ws ipmi. 

the problem im running into is, the ipmi landing page says Citrix, which is confusing for a supermicro board. Also none of the default logins have worked. 

i have tried ADMIN/ADMIN, ADMIN/PASSWORD, both same but all lowercase

ive also been tying to reflash the bmc to newer firmware in hopes that would reset the password
using Yafuflash, the usb medium keeps erroring out
trying the network medium, it requires the ipmi login

trying the bootable dos usb, it just doesnt boot

im kind of at a loss right now, hoping its not bricked. 

any help would be appreciated. and yes i know this is a really old device, yes i know its inefficient. but its cool lol. 

[Nayr438]

For IPMI you should be able to add/remove users and change passwords with ipmitool, it's for Linux and should be in most distros repositories.
You shouldn't need to know any of the old logins to use it.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000055688/server-products.html

 

Supermicro also has some tools on their site, I have only ever used ipmiview however.
https://www.supermicro.com/en/solutions/management-software/ipmi-utilities
https://www.supermicro.com/en/support/resources/downloadcenter/smsdownload?category=IPMI

[Shooterdude34]

1 minute ago, Nayr438 said:

For IPMI you should be able to add/remove users and change passwords with ipmitool, it's for Linux and should be in most distros repositories.
You shouldn't need to know any of the old logins to use it.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000055688/server-products.html

 

Supermicro also has some tools on their site, I have only ever used ipmiview however.
https://www.supermicro.com/en/solutions/management-software/ipmi-utilities
https://www.supermicro.com/en/support/resources/downloadcenter/smsdownload?category=IPMI

thanks, ive been trying to use the ipmicfg but it just hangs in the cmd window. i havent tried through powershell however. 

i might look down the ipmitool path but my server is running windows server 2019 right now. im not sure if that tool needs to be in the host os or not

[OhYou_]

i think i used ipmicfg on windows fine with x9, no idea on x8 stuff, but for sure you can do it from live boot, i did ipmicfg from a windows installer winPE environment lol

[Nayr438]

You can grab a Arch Linux iso and boot it, you don't have to install it. You would need a internet connection however.

 

Boot it up into the live env and just do 

pacman -Sy ipmitool

Then just use it from that environment.

ipmitool user list

root (primary admin) should be id 2

ipmitool user set password 2 whateverpassword

then your done. Just reboot

systemctl reboot now

 

And I am only recommending Arch here because I know ipmiview is in the repos and I know it works, I have personally done this.
I do recommend using etcher for writing the image to a usb on windows. 

Edited September 24, 2025 by Nayr438

[Shooterdude34]

8 minutes ago, OhYou_ said:

i think i used ipmicfg on windows fine with x9, no idea on x8 stuff, but for sure you can do it from live boot, i did ipmicfg from a windows installer winPE environment lol

how did you do this? ive been struggling to get this board to boot to any usb i have, like i said was trying a dos bootable environment

[OhYou_]

17 hours ago, Shooterdude34 said:

how did you do this? ive been struggling to get this board to boot to any usb i have, like i said was trying a dos bootable environment

you have to keep in mind x8 does not have uefi, so many tools to make bootable usb drives simply dont work at all because everyone has abandoned traditional bios. 
I mainly use LiLi for this, its abandonware, but you can still find and download it. back in the day I must have treid like 10 tools and methods before finding that and it just werks every time, though struggles sometimes with modern hw. 
Also have to make sure your OS iso works with it too. some linuxes dont even boot on non-uefi without effort. 

I also have some concerns with what you are planning to do with ipmi, it might end up being a total pain to get it working on a modern os/browser.

[Nayr438]

31 minutes ago, OhYou_ said:

I also have some concerns with what you are planning to do with ipmi, it might end up being a total pain to get it working on a modern os/browser.

The web interface may depend on java applet which is dead, at least our X9DRD-LF systems do which are newer. Should hopefully be able to use ipmiview however for remote management, though it does like to randomly freak out especially if the remote resolution changes.

[Shooterdude34]

6 hours ago, OhYou_ said:

you have to keep in mind x8 does not have uefi, so many tools to make bootable usb drives simply dont work at all because everyone has abandoned traditional bios. 
I mainly use LiLi for this, its abandonware, but you can still find and download it. back in the day I must have treid like 10 tools and methods before finding that and it just werks every time, though struggles sometimes with modern hw. 
Also have to make sure your OS iso works with it too. some linuxes dont even boot on non-uefi without effort. 

I also have some concerns with what you are planning to do with ipmi, it might end up being a total pain to get it working on a modern os/browser.

ill take a look at LiLi, hopefully thatll work. And i just want it so that i can remotely manage my server lol. like its made for. ive got another x99 board that i got the ipmi working but its a little bit of a workaround lol

[Shooterdude34]

6 hours ago, Nayr438 said:

The web interface may depend on java applet which is dead, at least our X9DRD-LF systems do which are newer. Should hopefully be able to use ipmiview however for remote management, though it does like to randomly freak out especially if the remote resolution changes.

and yeah ive been through the java applet headache with my x99 ws ipmi as well, but with that i just made a windows 7 vm to access it from. i was also able to make java 7 portable so i could use it on windows 11 without having it fully installed