[172188] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ipmi access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen Massar)
Mon Jun 2 16:57:33 2014
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Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 22:56:58 +0200
From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@massar.ch>
To: Brian Rak <brak@gameservers.com>
In-Reply-To: <538CD67C.7010806@gameservers.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 2014-06-02 21:54, Brian Rak wrote:
>
> On 6/2/2014 3:47 PM, shawn wilson wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Nikolay Shopik <shopik@inblock.ru> wrote:
>>
>>> Java only used for mouting images. KVM is transfered via VNC protocol
>>> iirc.
>> They're not re-inventing the wheel, but I think KVM is generally some
>> VNC stream embedded in http(s) which VNC clients can't seem to
>> understand (at least, at a glance, I haven't been able to connect to
>> iLo, DRAC, Spider, or Tyan IPMI from outside the Java app).
> No, at least on SuperMicro it's a hacked up VNC protocol. It's not
> embedded in HTTP/HTTPS, it just uses HTTP/HTTPS to fetch the Java app.
>
> I say hacked up because it's got a custom auth method, and a whole bunch
> of undocumented extensions. I looked into implementing support in noVNC
> for it, but reverse engineering a binary protocol is a bit beyond me.
While there is no spec, there are people who have reversed it:
https://github.com/thefloweringash/chicken-aten-ikvm
Greets,
Jeroen
