IPMI on Fedora Core 5 on a PE SC430?

[John_Hull at Dell.com]

You need to have a system with a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)
included on the motherboard to use OpenIPMI. None of the PowerEdge SC
systems have one 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Jason Edgecombe
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:42 PM
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: IPMI on Fedora Core 5 on a PE SC430?
> 
> hi,
> 
> I need to monitor the temperature sensors on a PowerEdge 
> SC430. I'm running Fedora core 5 on it.
> 
> I understand that I need to use IPMI for this. I install the 
> standard OpenIPMI rpms via yum, but the kernel modules won't load.
> # modprobe ipmi_si
> FATAL: Error inserting ipmi_si
> (/lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2133_FC5smp/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/ip
> mi_si.ko): 
> No such device
> 
> Im running kernel 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5smp.
> 
> I've been a linux guy for 10+ years, but I'm an IPMI newbie. 
> Any tips on getting this running would be appreciated.
> 
> I've looked for a manual, but all I've found are the IPMI 
> specs which aren't helpful.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
> 
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