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

[Joan]

I used the dmidecode option at first, unfortunately, some boards
report ipmi support even when they don't have a proper support. See
here for such cases https://github.com/zoide/puppet-ipmi/issues/1
So now I'm looking for specifically 2.0 verision tags, I'll have to
investigate more if there are newer versions...

2014-03-12 16:15 GMT+01:00 Joan <address@hidden>:
> 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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>> --
>> Albert Chu
>> address@hidden
>> Computer Scientist
>> High Performance Systems Division
>> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
>>