Martin, Here's a summary of the differences. The ipmiutil package provides IPMI functionality similar to ipmitool but it has certain advantages and additional features: * automates common IPMI management functions * interprets more event data than other packages * includes a severity with each IPMI event * allows easier configuration of the IPMI LAN channel * supports various drivers and driverless mode also * supports other OSs, like Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows, etc. * provides automated test cases
Andy -----Original Message----- From: martin f krafft [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 3:33 PM To: Andy Cress Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: ITP: ipmiutil -- Easy-to-use IPMI server management utilities also sprach Andy Cress <[email protected]> [2011.11.28.2050 +0100]: > The ipmiutil package provides easy-to-use utilities to view the SEL, > perform an IPMI chassis reset, set up the IPMI LAN and Platform Event > Filter entries to allow SNMP alerts, Serial-Over-LAN console, event > daemon, and other IPMI tasks. How does this compare to ipmitoolr Might be worth to take the most striking differences (top-down vs. bottom-up, …) from http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/docs/ipmisw-compare.htm and put them into textform for users to be able to decide. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[email protected]> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" -- robert browning
