Contributed by jolan on from the sensors-sensors-senors dept.
Marco Peereboom sent an email to misc@ last week which details the new IPMI support in OpenBSD. Here's a little exert from Marco's mail to get you started:The ipmi term Intelligent Platform Management refers to autonomous monitoring and recovery features implemented directly in platform management hardware and firmware. The key characteristics of Intelligent Platform Management is that inventory, monitoring, logging, and recovery control functions are available independent of the main processor, BIOS, and operating system.
More OpenBSD-specific IPMI can be found in the ipmi(4) man page. It is quite interesting as it provides support for some sensors like the ones used in Dell PowerEdge servers.
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By dev (62.179.8.122) dev on
By Richard (195.212.199.55) on
...and that's the point ...you don't NEED a driver (it works even if there is no OS running or even if the main board is not powered up!).
I'm not knocking it (I'm sure it's very good) but I'm sorry, I just don't 'get' the point of this (or is this a driver for the client remotely connecting to the BMC? Not that you need one there either)
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By Richard (195.212.199.55) on
Very nice indeed - I like it!
By Paladdin (80.58.46.107) on
Take out that box tamper switch to your rack door, and you could even check if somebody is playing with your machine, almost inmediatly and without moving from your desk.
With impi and sensorsd systems can send you and email instantly alerting about what's going on. Very nice! :)
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