IPMI on Fedora Core 5 on a PE SC430?

[John_Hull at Dell.com]

That's a good point on the 1425SC. For certain, though, the SC430 does
not have one.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Skrotzki [mailto:fskrotzki at textwise.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 1:07 PM
> To: Hull, John; linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: RE: IPMI on Fedora Core 5 on a PE SC430?
> 
>  Not the case exactly.  The 1425SC has a BMC on the 
> motherboard and OpenIPMI works great on that.  We have not 
> tested it with FC5 yet.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of 
> John_Hull at dell.com
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 1:50 PM
> To: jedgecombe at carolina.rr.com; linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
> Subject: RE: IPMI on Fedora Core 5 on a PE SC430?
> 
> 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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