Re: To identify the BMC IP address in ESXi console

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to exist a standard builtin esxcli command to query the management controller IP.

But you can query the local CIM providers from the ESXi shell and get the IP like this:

# enum_instances OMC_IPMIIPProtocolEndpoint root/cimv2 | grep IPv4Address

                   IPv4Address = 10.2.1.17

What you can also do is querying the host's CIM information remotely, for example like this:

$ curl -sk https://myesxihost.local:5989/cimom --user root -X POST \

-H 'Content-type: application/xml; charset="utf-8"' \

-H 'CIMMethod: EnumerateInstances' \

-H 'CIMOperation: MethodCall' \

-H 'CIMProtocolVersion: 1.0' \

-H 'CIMObject: root/cimv2' \

--data '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<CIM CIMVERSION="2.0" DTDVERSION="2.0">

  <MESSAGE ID="882670" PROTOCOLVERSION="1.0">

    <SIMPLEREQ>

      <IMETHODCALL NAME="EnumerateInstances">

        <LOCALNAMESPACEPATH>

          <NAMESPACE NAME="root"/>

          <NAMESPACE NAME="cimv2"/>

        </LOCALNAMESPACEPATH>

        <IPARAMVALUE NAME="ClassName">

          <CLASSNAME NAME="OMC_IPMIIPProtocolEndpoint"/>

        </IPARAMVALUE>

      </IMETHODCALL>

    </SIMPLEREQ>

  </MESSAGE>

</CIM>' | grep -A1 IPv4Address

 

 

Enter host password for user 'root':

<PROPERTY NAME="IPv4Address" TYPE="string">

<VALUE>10.2.1.17</VALUE>

These are generic CIM methods that should work with any standard IPMI device and do not require any special drivers/extensions by a hardware vendor.