How can I mitigate IPMI security vulnerabilities without breaking fence_ipmilan fencing in a High Availability cluster?

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Issue

  • How can I mitigate IPMI security vulnerabilities without breaking fence_ipmilan fencing in a High Availability cluster?
  • Our security team has discovered vulnerabilities within the IPMI protocol.

  • Can we turn off the IPMI protocol on the iLO, and would that have an effect on the fencing of the cluster?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 (with the High Availability Add-on)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 (with the High Availability Add-on)

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