Out-of-Band management MSL2024/4048/SL24/SL48 with simple telnet and expect tool
Tasks on library you can do remotely (most of them can be done on Ops Panel):
- open mailslot;
- shutdown/power up drive;
- get actual inventory without in-band connection (mtx or so);
- get temp on lib block, robotics, drvs;
- anything you need to do remotely over private (unsecured) network;
Get the password for tadmin/tsupport (you need *.frm file, something like MSL4048_x.yy.frm) by doing something like this (I don’t provide any files, passwords, etc., here) using binwalk for FLMON/telnet access (very dirty, but it’s not encrypted, keep an eye on 2nd column, HEX shift, this will be file name after extraction):
$ binwalk -e library_firmware.frm DECIMAL HEXADECIMAL DESCRIPTION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28749 0x704D CRC32 polynomial table, little endian 32845 0x804D CRC32 polynomial table, big endian 39330 0x99A2 Copyright string: "Copyright 1995-2005 Mark Adler " 40005 0x9C45 Zlib compressed data, default compression 1724176 0x1A4F10 MySQL ISAM compressed data file Version 7 1896591 0x1CF08F Base64 standard index table $ strings _library_firmware.frm.extracted/9C45 | egrep -A1 "PASSADM|PASSSER" | tail -4 PASSADM <password for tadmin> PASSSER <password for tsupport> $
Simple script using expect:
#!/usr/bin/expect # power off drive 2 set timeout 300 set name tape set user tadmin set password <password> # insert extracted password here spawn telnet $name expect "FLMON>" send "lgi\n" expect "User Name:" send "$user\n" expect "Password:" send "$password\n" expect "login ok" send "swdr 2 0\n" expect "Command executed successfully" send "lgo\n" expect "logout successfully!" send "exit\n"
And so on – change command, check for reply, confirm enough timeouts.