IPMI

[Srinivas_Ramanatha at Dell.com]

Hello,

You don't need to rebuild the kernel with any extra modules and need not
install OMSA to use the native power cycle functionality.
You can use "ipmitool" which comes as a part of CentOS for carrying out
your power cycle operations.
Here's how you can use it:

"ipmitool -I lan -H <BMC-IP Address> -U <User ID> -a chassis power
cycle"

Thanks
Srinivas

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of James Bensley
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:40 PM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: IPMI

Hey Listee's

I have been reading about the IPMI functionality in Dell servers and
it sounds good and we would like to use it for power cycling servers.
But I am confused about actually implementing it;

We have Linux servers (we use CentOS for our Linux servers) and
Windows servers (we use Win2k3 for these). If I wanted to use IPMI for
power cycling our Linux servers do I need to rebuild the kernel with
some extra modules and install OMSA on those servers? Also how do I
get IPMI functioning on the Windows servers, most of them have OMSA
installed already, what else do I need to do to get IPMI functioning
on our servers?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
James ;)

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