Re: [Freeipmi-users] bmc-autoconfig: drop for 0.5.0 release?

[Peter Broadwell]

I have need to configure many machines at the same time and if the templateing
file was documented this tool might become the one of choice for such uses.

;;peter


Anand Babu Periasamy wrote:
> Hi Al,
> * It is still maintained.
> * BMC-Autoconfig is not a GUI wizard for bmc-config. It is supposed to
>  ask minimum questions from the user and automatically configure the
>  BMC with known defaults. It is intended for users without any
>  knowledge of IPMI to quickly get a basic working setup.
> 
> * It does enable LAN and configure NULL, admin, operator and ipmiuser
>  accounts. See the template file, you will get an idea what all it
>  configures.
> If you have suggestions to improve, let us know?
> 
> Albert Chu writes:
> 
>> I'm thinking of dropping this from FreeIPMI:
>>
>> A) It doesn't seem to be maintained by the original authors.
>>
>> B) It apparenly only configures 3 fields of the BMC.  No users, lan
>> enabling, etc.
>>
>> I don't really see the use anymore.  Any comments?  Anyone out there
>> using
>> this?
>>
>> Al
>>
>> -- 
>