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Zhiheng (Jason) Zhang
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> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:16:40 -0500
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Openipmi-developer] IPMI over LAN in Windows
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> CC: [email protected]
>
> zhiheng zhang wrote:
> >> ipmilan is primarily for testing; it is not IPMI-compliant to use it for
> >> production purposes. There was a port of OpenIPMI in progress, but I'm
> >> not sure of the current state and I don't think that included this
> >> particular utility.
> >>
> >> -corey
> >>
> >
> > There are some systems which only provide KCS interface such as HP ProLiant
> > GL380, ipmilan is particular useful in this situation to provide a
> > simulation of IPMI over LAN.
> > I hope OpenIPMI can make this tool IPMI-compliant for production purpose.
> >
> I think you misunderstand. It *cannot* be IPMI-compliant to run this on
> the host. The LAN interface must be on the BMC to be compliant.
>
> ipmilan has other compliance issues, like not being properly
> configurable. These could be solved, but the fundamental issues is that
> you don't have offline access when the host is down.
>
> -corey
Thanks for your correction. Now I understand "IPMI-compliant" issue.
>From IPMI application perspective, when the host only has KCS interface,
if it is down, no matter using ipmilan or not, no way thatwe can get
information using IPMI. But when it is up,
ipmilan provides a way for application outside the box to do some useful things
using IPMI over LAN interface, such as get sensor status. In this sense,
ipmilan is
still very useful although it is not IPMI-compliant.
Best Regard
Jason
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