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BT1 Security Appliance User Guide
5 About the IPMITool
5 About the IPMITool
By Duncan Laurie (Used with Permission)
IPMITool is a utility for managing and configuring devices that support the Intelligent Platform
Management Interface (IPMI) version 1.5 and version 2.0 specifications. IPMI is an open standard
for monitoring, logging, recovery, inventory, and control of hardware that is implemented
independent of the main CPU, BIOS, and OS. The service processor (or Baseboard Management
Controller, BMC) is the brain behind platform management and its primary purpose is to handle the
autonomous sensor monitoring and event logging features.
The IPMITool program provides a simple command-line interface to this BMC. It features the ability
to read the sensor data repository (SDR) and print sensor values, display the contents of the System
Event Log (SEL), print Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) inventory information, read and set LAN
configuration parameters, and perform remote chassis power control.
It was originally written to take advantage of IPMI-over-LAN interfaces but is also capable of using a
system interface as provided by a kernel device driver such as OpenIPMI on Linux and BMC on
Solaris 10 or the new OpenIPMI-compatible driver in FreeBSD.
Table 5 - 1. IPMITool Topics
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