hi i trying to setup remote wake up lan and shut down from a user script

 

i installed the ipmi plugin  and that plugin works locally... the wake on lan plugin works from the broswer

 

but i trying to run    

 ipmitool -I lan -H 192.168.0.9 chassis power soft

 

to shut down  from article i read.. but the ipmitool doesnt exist..  i googled different articles and different packages back to 2012 but nothing working

even  ipmiutil    command doesnt work

 

so i not sure what i doing wrong...  maybe i miss read something somewhere

 

and then i also wanna be able to power up a remote computer by the command line using this then too

 

 

Edited November 30, 20187 yr by comet424

1 hour ago, comet424 said:

but i trying to run    

 ipmitool -I lan -H 192.168.0.9 chassis power soft

 

ipmitool is not built-in to unRAID.  You need to install the NerdPack plugin and install ipmitool from the plugin.

 

oh ok  I installed  ipmi  figured that was the same thing from app store...

 

thanks 

ok so I got that installed..  getting closer  I tried the command  I hit enter for password since there is no password  needed as root is blank but I get this error

root@Tower:~#  ipmitool -I lan -H 192.168.0.8 chassis power soft
Password:
Error: Unable to establish LAN session
Error: Unable to establish IPMI v1.5 / RMCP session
root@Tower:~#

is there something I need to enable on the remote computer.. I also installed nerdtools and the impitools on the remote computer

9 minutes ago, comet424 said:

is there something I need to enable on the remote computer.. I also installed nerdtools and the impitools on the remote computer

Your remote computer has a baseboard management controller (BMC) and you have IPMI configured in the BIOS correct?

 

What is the motherboard of the remote computer?

not sure what a bmc controller is

 

and I don't think board has ipmi ill look

 

its a MSI B450-I Gaming Plus AC  motherboard

 

 

I don't think I have any of that..  so im guessing I cant put the computer to sleep by command...  guess I have to just let it goto sleep on its own of like 10 min inactivity I guessing

14 minutes ago, comet424 said:

its a MSI B450-I Gaming Plus AC  motherboard

That board does not support IPMI. 

 

A BMC is basically a computer within the computer.  The BMC is always on even when the computer is completely shut down.  IPMI communicates through a dedicated or shared IPMI NIC on the motherboard.

 

The MSI board has no idea what to do with the IPMI commands as it has no BMC to process them and does not support IPMI.

Edited November 30, 20187 yr by Hoopster

Just now, comet424 said:

I don't think I have any of that..  so im guessing I cant put the computer to sleep by command...  guess I have to just let it goto sleep on its own of like 10 min inactivity I guessing

 

You can configure the S3 sleep plugin on the remote computer to put the computer too sleep after a specified period of inactivity.

 

Your script can wake the remote computer, do whatever it needs to do and then put the computer to sleep when done.

and I guess I cant add this feature then  to this board...  so when I looking for another mini itx board  what do I look for  IPMI  and BMC features?

as my next motherboard  I was going to use Asus STRIX B360-I GAMING

 

but maybe gaming board not good enough then

5 minutes ago, comet424 said:

but maybe gaming board not good enough then 

 

Usually only server boards support IPMI.

 

This is the one I am currently using in my backup server.

 

Supermicro and ASRock Rack have a few Mini-ITX server boards that support IPMI.  Asus also has a couple, but, I am not sure if they have any IPMI boards in Mini-ITX form factor.

ya  I was able to wake the computer up  at least with the

etherwake 30:9C:23:DE:95:38

so that part works.. as I plan to do this over the internet  but for now  I least can wake up 

ah ok  ill look those up..  only reason I chose gaming board.. as the computer store carried them and I can pick them up same day instead of ordering off amazon