IPMI

[Gido_Baumann at Dell.com]

Hi James,

if you want to use the functionality of IPMI from an external connection
(Out-of-Band-Management / agentless monitoring) you have to configure
only the baseboard management controller (BMC) or DELL remote access
card (DRAC).

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q04-20040204-Murphy.pdf
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q07-20070387-Babu.pdf

You can use this in a management infrastructure too f.e. via DELL IT
Assistant (ITA).

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q06-20070158-John.pdf

If you want to use IPMI on your local system, you have to install
IPMITool in your operating system.

There was also an presentation from DELL on RED HAT Summit 2006

http://linux.dell.com/files/presentations/Red_Hat_Summit_May_2006/ipmi_p
resentation-redhat_summit.pdf

And yes, there is a windows version on

http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/

Regards,
Gido

...

more technological background you will find on this documents

http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/
http://openipmi.sourceforge.net/
http://openipmi.sourceforge.net/IPMI.pdf