IPMI/BMC: Power operations are not enabled on this host

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Hello,

A few month ago I have installed foreman 3.8 + katello 4.10 and can provision new Hosts without any problem.

Now I am trying to use the BMC to remotely control power of bare metal Hosts.

In CLI mode I can control the power of the Hosts with ipmitool:

ipmitool  -I lanplus -U xxx -H 192.168.xxx.xxx chassis

I would like to remotely control the power with foreman GUI or hammer. I created an IPMI subnet and added a BMC interface type on the Host within the IMPI subnet.

The foreman-installer has been run with the options :

-foreman-proxy-bmc true --foreman-proxy-bmc-default-provider ipmitool

When I try with hammer, I have:

# hammer host status --id 4
Power operations are not enabled on this host.

On the GUI when I list the Hosts, the power button in front of the Host is inactive. When I do “Select Action/Change Power State” nothing happens when I select a power state even though I have a message “Success”.

The configuration files look good. I have read a few topics on the forum about the same error message but didn’t find a solution.

How could I debug the problem ? What should I check ?
Is there anyone using the bmc feature successfully ?

Thanks,
Christophe
PS: this is my first post. Sorry if the formatting is not good.

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Maybe this previous post will be helpful…

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Hello Jeremy,

Thank you for your answer.

To be honest, it was a password problem. The BMC password was mistyped on the Foreman GUI. Sorry !

The link you sent me was about the usage of redfish as BMC provider. So I decided to try it. And when I switched the provider from ipmitool to redfish, I got an understandable message:

Error details for Invalid credentials: <RedfishClient::Connector::AuthError>: Invalid credentials

I then understood that there was a password problem.

With the ipmitool provider the error message was not clear to me:

ERF12-1772 [ProxyAPI::ProxyException]: Unable to perform power BMC operation ([RestClient::BadRequest]: 400 Bad Request) for proxy https://...:9090/bmc

With the right BMC password set under foreman the power management works now no matter the provider I use.

Best regards,

Christophe

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