Thank you guys for your suggestions. I'll check out ipmiutils and see how I like that.
I downloaded the Dell Managment Console, but that appears to be a server side application. I was hoping that there had to be a simple client-side gui that will interact with IPMI over the LAN without all kinds of fancy things loaded on the server itself. Rodman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexander Dupuy" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 9:24 AM Subject: Re: IPMI Question > Rodman Frowert asked: > >> >> But what I would like to do is to be able to do >> >> this over the LAN from a windows client. Is there an easier way to do >> >> this WITHOUT ipmitools. Is there no client GUI that could connect to >> >> the >> >> BMC? >> > > Matt Domsch replied: >> > Dell I/T Assistant, and/or the newer Dell Management Console, are both >> > Windows apps which can manage Dell servers running Linux. I'm pretty >> > sure you need Dell OMSA on the target server, which with Slackware >> > might be a little tricky. > > Harold Jensas clarified: > >> Dell Management Console support IPMI BMC and DRAC cards without any >> agent on the OS. > > > While you may prefer a GUI-based application like Dell Management > Console on your Windows systems, the ipmiutil package is another command > line alternative to ipmitools that provides more functionality, and runs > on Windows. You can get it at http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/ - while > not as pretty as the Dell Management Console, it is useful if you want > to implement any kind of scripting or automation. > > > @alex > > -- > mailto:[email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
