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


From: Al Chu
Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-users] Detect ipmi support for a board
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:00:07 -0700

On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 13:14 +0100, Joan wrote:
> 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...

There is only IPMI 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0, so there shouldn't be anything
newer than that.  Of course, that doesn't mean a vendor gets that field
wrong or does something else with it :-(

Al

> 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
> >>
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