IPMI sum up

[Harald_Jensas at Dell.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of 
> Gunther Schlegel
> Sent: 13 June 2006 13:27
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: IPMI sum up
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> probably an RTFM, but I cannot find it...
> 
> Can anybody tell me in short what I can do with IPMI on an 
> 2850 system?
> 
> best regards, Gunther
> 

The Manual:

PDF:
http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smbmcmu/2.0/en/ug/BM
CUG_P.zip
HTML:
http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smbmcmu/2.0/en/ug/in
dex.htm

A Sum up:

IPMI Shell (ipmish.exe for Windows or ipmitool for Linux) allows a user
with user-level BMC privileges to:

Display the current power status.
Display the 16-byte system GUID of the managed system.
Display information from the system's field replaceable unit (FRU).
Display the BMC firmware information.
Display summary information about the event log.
Display logged events.
Display current status of platform sensors
Enable or disable SOL.

In addition to the operations that can be performed by a user with
user-level BMC user privileges, IPMI Shell allows a user with
operator-level and administrator-level BMC user privileges to:

Power on, reset, or power cycle a managed system.
Simulate a hard power off on a managed system (forcing the system to
turn off without shutting down the operating system).
Clear the system event log (SEL).
Turn the blinking system identification LED on or off.



In addition to this if you configure BIOS and BMC correct, and install
the SOL proxy software on a system you can get the console redirected
through BMC and SOL Proxy to your favorite telnet client. See POST,
configure BIOS remotely and if OS console etc.


You can talk to the BMC using ipmi through the serial port, NIC 1 and
from local system if ipmi drivers are installed.


//
Harald