Repeatedly changing IPMI password ended up with "Failed to check for alert IPMISEL" line 650

• my starting point was a working IPMI

• the FreeNAS docs say the max password length is 20 chars, so I set such a password

• I then could no longer log into the IPMI web interface

• I changed to a shorter password and that worked

• I tried a longer password: failed

• I kept changing passwords from shorter to longer and back to find the real max password length

• but along the way, the FreeNAS web interface stopped responding, and so did the IPMI web interface.

• after everything timed out, I could log into FreeNAS again and got the 'critical alert' below.

• I still can't see the IPMI web interface anymore, it doesn't respond at all; though it does respond to ping.

CRITICAL
Failed to check for alert IPMISEL: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/middlewared/plugins/alert.py", line 650, in _run_source alerts = (await alert_source.check()) or [] File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/middlewared/plugins/../alert/source/ipmi_sel.py", line 130, in check (await run(["ipmitool", "-c", "sel", "elist"], encoding="utf8")).stdout) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/middlewared/utils/init_.py", line 109, in run cp.check_returncode() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 444, in check_returncode self.stderr) subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '('ipmitool', '-c', 'sel', 'elist')' returned non-zero exit status 1.
Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:55:32 AM (America/Toronto)

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