That depends, you don't give enough information to know. This could be a system where the main interface to IPMI it through the serial port. Many ATCA boards have this. (BTW, I think this is a bad idea, but that's another story.) If the interface from the main processor on the board to the IPMC is through a serial port, this is what you have. If this is what you have, then go to http://openipmi.sf.net and get the serial IPMI driver for Linux. It should support this interface. Make sure to read the docs in Documentation/IPMI.txt in the kernel. Then you can use ipmitool, OpenIPMI, or directly use the device interface to the IPMI driver.
If you have a serial cable out the back of your system for this IPMI interface, then you are using Basic Mode as it was intended to be used. Unfortunately, I don't think there is any software currently available to support you on this. I know that you could extend OpenIPMI to do this, and ipmitool should be easy to extend, too. However, I don't think anyone has done it. Someone was working on it in OpenIPMI, but it never went to completion, I don't think. -corey Evgeny S. Sidorenko wrote: > Hi all! > I have the following problem: I have device that connects to the > computer via serial port, and provides IPMI over serial in Basic Mode. > I have problem in understanding how to generate messages (format, > etc), send/receive requests/answers, and so on. > Could you help me in this problem? I need only basically knowledge, > i.e. how to create connections, create messages, etc > > -- > Best regards, > Evgeny ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
