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  1. ZABBIX BUGS AND ISSUES
  2. ZBX-13468

IPMI: solve RMCP+ connecton issues for iDRAC/others by using BMC selected authentication strategy

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    • Icon: Patch request Patch request
    • Resolution: Won't fix
    • Icon: Major Major
    • None
    • 3.4.6
    • Server (S)
    • Linux, OpenIPMI
    • Sprint 29, Sprint 30, Sprint 31, Sprint 32, Sprint 33, Sprint 34, Sprint 35

      Currently Zabbix has issues with BMCs supporting only RMCP+ but a limited list of RMCP+ authentication/integrity/confidentiality schemes not matching OpenIPMI defaults. It manifests as 'Invalid argument (22)' error with RMCP+, error 16777441 when not using RMCP+, and so on.

      A good example is Dell iDRAC 6 module. It cannot be queried by Zabbix IPMI checks because of that.

      I am attaching a patch that enforces all RMCP+ channel authentication/integrity/confidentiality parameters to BMC specified.

      This patch is better extended by Zabbix team to add real options for RMCP+ authentication/integrity/confidentiality modes to the web interface. This is just 'proof of concept' patch making BMC rule the communication options that indeed works when using RMCP+ at least on iDRAC 6.

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            Alex/AT Alexey Asemov
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