are there any plans for support the ipad

IMPORTANT: The other major improvement I would recommend before adding other features, is security related… Please add a login passcode to access the IPMI features — useful when storing the username/password for the server. (I would hate to see my kid or someone else play around with this and all of a sudden, servers are shutdown or rebooted). This is just common sense.

Power Off in IPMI touch is unconditional (ungraceful) so this is expected behavior. You are basically flipping the power switch remotely. The option is especially useful if a machine has hanged, OS crashed etc.

The soft shutdown will appear in the next version. Take a look at “Soft-shutdown in V1.3″.

Behavior of “power reset” (power cycle) command is not very intuitive so I have decided against including it in the power dialog. On most machines IPMI power reset works exactly as real reset button. If your server is off, pushing reset button will not produce any effect. Having dedicated power off/on operations gives you a confirmation that the command was successful (send power off, refresh status, see server off). There is another aspect. Imagine that your server has crashed and OS is damaged beyond repair. You can send a reset and the server will try to reboot but you will keep wondering if it did happen or not. With power off there is no question. You will know for sure that you got the server off and on and it still does not respond (meaning that network or OS is probably in real trouble). This is especially important if you are trying to do all of this from an iPhone where console access is not very convenient (even with ssh and vnc apps).

Sensor ignore has been suggested a few times and makes a lot of sense but it requires some back end work in the app. Work in progress.

AES128 is a trick question . It is fully implemented and tested but is excluded from the production version of the app. It is considered cryptography export by the government even if all you do is use crypto libraries already on the phone. The hustle of getting something like this approved for ‘export’ is just too much. Which is too bad since I made an effort to re-write imptool crypto code to use CommonCrypto so it is pretty lightweight and fast.

Not every model of DELL DRAC supports IPMI LAN interface. On the models that do there is a check box to enable IPMI LAN. That should be your first step. Send an email to support address with the detailed error you are getting and we will take it form there.

I see that your app uses ipmitool.

If I run

$ ipmitool -I lanplus -H my-server -U andrew chassis power soft

I get the desired result (Soft power down), so perhaps this wouldn’t be a difficult feature to add?

Best regards,
Andrew

I just purchased IPMI touch for iPhone. I have configured it to work with my Supermicro X7SPA-HF, and all is working fine except for one thing, and I’m not sure whether it is a bug or just my configuration.

When selecting “Power off”, the server shuts down immediately, and uncleanly. Is this expected behavior? My board provides a web interface, which has options “Power off immediately”, but also an option “Orderly shutdown”. This is the result I was hoping for…

Do you have experience of IPMI Touch performing an orderly shutdown on any of your test servers?

If not is this a feature likely to be added in the future?

Many thanks,
Andrew