IPMI

[Peter Kjellstrom]

On Tuesday 05 May 2009, James Bensley wrote:
> 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?

To talk to the IPMI-controller via LAN no OS support is needed. You just have 
to configure it with a suitable IP address and hook it up physically.

 Example (power "target-server" from "control-server"):
 user at control-server $ ipmitool -I lan -H target-server-ipmi ... power off

To be clear, in the above example target-server-ipmi should resolve to the IP 
address of the IPMI-controller not the normal IP address for the 
target-server.


OS drivers are only needed if you want to talk directly to the local 
IPMI-controller.

 Example (list eventlog for this local server):
 user at target-server $ ipmitool sel list

/Peter

> 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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