<p dir="ltr">C'mon everyone knows the OSI reference model stops at layer 5. Or probably 4.</p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Bennetts<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 30 November 2013 6:02 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Daniel Watson; Michael Andreas Schipp<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] LDAP / AD Configuration on SuperMicro IPMI Devices<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">My main point to make first of all is that IPMI devices and their back-end authentication methods are different with every single
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">If David was asking for help with anyone with A10 experience then it would possibly make sense to ask on AusNOG. For help with a
server mainboard I would expect a different list would be much more worthwhile. Especially when I suspect at least 50% of AusNOG members are networking hardware focused, not server hardware.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I’m generally don’t subscribe to computing (server/workstation) lists as I do not gain much from them with the amount of email volume.
Networking questions and answers I have a much higher gain ratio for the number of emails I get, hence I subscribe to around 10 NOG style mailing lists.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">In other words, for me these posts become like spam and devalue the AusNOG list.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Perhaps some people need to read the intro lines on the AusNOG website and mailing list pages: “The AusNOG Mailing List is an informally
moderated mailing list providing a forum for the discussion of technical and operational information by network operators.” – Network, not server operators.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Daniel Watson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 30 November 2013 5:50 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Michael Andreas Schipp; David Hughes<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] LDAP / AD Configuration on SuperMicro IPMI Devices<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 30, 2013 5:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> David Hughes; Daniel Watson<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> RE: [AusNOG] LDAP / AD Configuration on SuperMicro IPMI Devices</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> To be fair, networking devices are starting to get IPMI built-in to them these days. Some examples are A10 Networks (whom I work for) and F5 so
you may see more questions in future on operational questions based on IPMI.</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="142a7d28359e479f__MailEndCompose"><span lang="EN-US" style>Thank you,<br>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>David Hughes<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 30 November 2013 5:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Daniel Watson<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] LDAP / AD Configuration on SuperMicro IPMI Devices</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>As before, try a server / sysadmin related list like SAGE-AU (or google or whatever) for server questions. Strike 2.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>On 30/11/2013, at 3:46 PM, Daniel Watson <<a href="mailto:daniel@glovine.com.au" target="_blank">daniel@glovine.com.au</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">I was wondering if any *Network Operators* have had any success in configuring their IPMI devices to use an AD environment for staff logins rather then the on-device
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">If you have, please ping off-list as i would like to get some help/input from you :D</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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