Re: [Freeipmi-users] Detect ipmi support for a board

[Joan]

Thanks Al, this is exactly what I was looking for, I had been looking
for it but didn't appear on my searches, I'll test it on more systems,
but it looks good.
Thanks a lot :)

2014-03-12 15:44 GMT+01:00 Al Chu <address@hidden>:
> Hi Joan,
>
> Thinking about this a little bit more.  If you wrote a script that did
> the two commands I list in the FAQ (ipmi-locate and dmidecode), if you
> cannot find IPMI via both of those mechanisms, I think with 99.99%
> certainty, that system won't have IPMI.  It's hard for me to imagine a
> modern-ish server not having something about IPMI in both of those
> outputs.
>
> Al
>
> On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 07:36 -0700, Al Chu wrote:
>> Hi Joan,
>>
>> The part of the FAQ should hopefully answer your question???
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/freeipmi-faq.html#Does-my-system-support-IPMI_003f
>>
>> If not, please feel free to follow up.
>>
>> Al
>>
>> On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 08:16 +0100, Joan wrote:
>> > Hi, I've been using ipmi-sensors on several server servers to monitor
>> > hardware issues, I would like to extend the usage to all of our
>> > physical servers but I've found out that on serveral I can't load the
>> > modules, and after looking into the documentation I've found out that
>> > those models doesn't have an ipmi controller.
>> > Is there an easy way to detect if there is ipmi support on a server?
>> >
>> > So far I am guessing the machines with ipmi support by loading
>> > ipmi_si, but it's slow and loading modules can be troubling sometimes,
>> > so, is there any other way to do it?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Joan
>> >
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