Users
Figure 8-1 (For IPMI 2.0)
Figure 8-2 (For IPMI 1.5)
Clicking on the Users tab in the Viewing Window (as shown in Figure 8-1 and 8-2) gives you detailed information on the Users management, and the paging severity thresholds for IPMI 1.5.
We strongly suggest you change passwords immediately to prevent malicious users getting control before you.
USERS
There are several buttons that allow you to add/delete a user, set user privileges, change passwords and enable/disable paging.
There are six privilege level groups, Callback, User, Operator, Administrator, OEM, and No Access. Only the first four privilege levels are implemented. Privilege Levels determine which IPMI commands a given user can execute over a given channel. Privilege Limits set the maximum privilege level that a user can operate at. A user is configured with a given maximum privilege limit for each channel. Thus, a user can operate at a privilege level that is no higher than his group privilege limit.
Group Privilege Levels
Callback |
This may be considered the lowest privilege level. Only commands necessary to support initiating a Callback are allowed. (Only available for IPMI 1.5.) |
User |
Only ¡¥benign¡¦ commands are allowed. These are primarily commands that read data structures and retrieve status. Commands that can be used to alter BMC configuration, write data to the BMC or other management controllers or perform system actions such as resets, power on/off, and watchdog activation are not allowed. |
Operator |
All BMC commands are allowed, except for configuration commands that can change the behavior of the out-of-band interfaces. For example, Operator privilege does not allow the capability to disable individual channels or change user access privileges. |
Administrator |
All BMC commands are allowed, including configuration commands. An Administrator can even execute configuration commands that would disable the channel that the Administrator is communicating over. |
Clicking on Paging Setting allows you to set the parameters for an individual user (Figure 8-3). There are two types of paging services: Numeric paging and alphanumeric paging. To use a paging service, a modem must be connected to the RS232 connector on the BMC (Figure 7-2).
FRU (Only for IPMI 2.0)
Here useful information may be found about the board and product, for example the serial number, part number and part name of the board and product.
PAGING / SEVERITY (Only for IPMI 1.5)
The paging severity settings define
when users will be notified of entries in the system event log (SEL).
The following settings are available for each group:
None |
When this is selected, user notification for this group is inactive. |
Warning |
When this is selected, the RMC will notify users when SEL entries for the group exceed the warning thresholds. |
Critical |
When this is selected, the RMC will notify users when SEL entries for the group exceed the critical thresholds. |
All |
When this is selected, the RMC will notify users of all SEL entries of events for the group. |
All warning and critical thresholds are predefined and based on hardware design.