Nutanix, IPMI & SSL

OK, I hope this post will help someone avoid what I went through the last few weeks.

If you have a Supermicro based server that includes an IPMI BMC and you happen to upload a valid SSL certificate, but the IPMI's web interface does not come back up after a restart ... you can fix it ... relatively easily.

Download the IPMI tools from the Supermicro website, create a DOS (or Linux) based, bootable USB stick and copy the IPMICFG tool onto it.

Boot from the USB and run the following command to reset the IMPI, clear the SSL certificate and generate a new, locally signed one, while you are at it:

ipmicfg -r

That's it.

Funny enough, the -r option is not documented in the IPMICFG User Manual.
I got that from a very helpful Nutanix technician.

Once run, the node reboots and comes back with a functioning web interface, at least it did in my case.

Unfortunately, I can't guarantee the above will work for everyone, but for Nutanix NX 3060-G4 nodes, it does.