.`ipmitool` is incompatible with certain server platforms The `ipmitool` utility serves for monitoring, configuring, and managing devices that support the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). The current version of `ipmitool` uses Cipher Suite 17 by default instead of the previous Cipher Suite 3. Consequently, `ipmitool` fails to communicate with certain bare metal nodes that announced support for Cipher Suite 17 during negotiation, but do not actually support this cipher suite. As a result, `ipmitool` aborts with the `no matching cipher suite` error message. For more details, see the related link: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5931381 [Knowledgebase article]. To solve this problem, update your baseboard management controller (BMC) firmware to use the Cipher Suite 17. Optionally, if the BMC firmware update is not available, you can work around this problem by forcing `ipmitool` to use a certain cipher suite. When invoking a managing task with `ipmitool`, add the `-C` option to the `ipmitool` command together with the _number_ of the cipher suite you want to use. See the following example: ----- # ipmitool -I lanplus -H myserver.example.com -P mypass -C 3 chassis power status -----