IPMI Question

[Alexander Dupuy]

Rodman Frowert asked:

> >> But what I would like to do is to be able to do
> >> this over the LAN from a windows client.  Is there an easier way to do
> >> this WITHOUT ipmitools.  Is there no client GUI that could connect to the
> >> BMC?
>   

Matt Domsch replied:
> > Dell I/T Assistant, and/or the newer Dell Management Console, are both
> > Windows apps which can manage Dell servers running Linux.  I'm pretty
> > sure you need Dell OMSA on the target server, which with Slackware
> > might be a little tricky.

Harold Jensas clarified:

> Dell Management Console support IPMI BMC and DRAC cards without any 
> agent on the OS.


While you may prefer a GUI-based application like Dell Management
Console on your Windows systems, the ipmiutil package is another command
line alternative to ipmitools that provides more functionality, and runs
on Windows.  You can get it at http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/ - while
not as pretty as the Dell Management Console, it is useful if you want
to implement any kind of scripting or automation.


@alex

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