IPMITOOL – Get Session Challenge command failed: Invalid data field in request

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Today morning I had strange issue while I was trying to wipeout old Nutanix POC box with running Microsoft Hyper-V 2012R2.

I went through the Foundation logs and I have found odd error

Get Session Challenge command failed

I thought it could be some issues with credentials, but same credentials worked fine with WebUI. Last instance was command line tools, fortunately IPMI has its own toolset  called ipmitool.

[nutanix@nutanix-installer ~]$ ipmitool -H 10.0.0.128 -U ADMIN
Password:
Get Session Challenge command failed: Invalid data field in request
Error: Unable to establish LAN session
[nutanix@nutanix-installer ~]$

Restore IPMI settings to Factory default solved problem. I was able to finish foundation process and since customer is running Nutanix AHV instead of Microsoft Hyper-V.

  • Log in to  IPMI via WebUI
  • Click Maintenance
  • Factory default
  • Restore

IPMI reset to default

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Artur Krzywdzinski

Artur is Consulting Architect at Nutanix. He has been using, designing and deploying VMware based solutions since 2005 and Microsoft since 2012. He specialize in designing and implementing private and hybrid cloud solution based on VMware and Microsoft software stacks, datacenter migrations and transformation, disaster avoidance. Artur holds VMware Certified Design Expert certification (VCDX #077).

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Hendrik

0_o

Having similar troubles since I’ve loaded configs with sum (Supermicro Update Manager) user (that works via the WebUI and sum itself) but not via IPMItool 0_o

Hendrik

and then I found the problem: RAKP

Refer to the SMCIPMItool User manual on: Appendix H SMC RAKP

need the setting oem_rakp=on in the smcipmitool.properties file… or turn off/on in the WebUI under Miscelaneous -> SMC RAKP

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