On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Skylar Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> THanks Joe! I've been reading about IPMI and also talking to my vendor >> about it. Sure, our machines also have IPMI support! >> >> Question: What's the difference between SOL and IPMI. Is one a subset >> of the other? >> > > SOL is provided by IPMI v1.5+, so it's a part of IPMI itself. > Last two days I was playing with ipmitool to connect to the machines. Is this the typical tool or do people have any other open source sugesstions to use. ipmitool seems to have a rich set of features for querying the BMC's etc. but I didn't see many SOL sections. Is ipmitool what people use to watch a redirected console as well or anything else? I couldn't find any good SOL howtos or tutorials on google other than the vendor-specific ones. ANy pointers? I did find this one from a fellow Beowulfer but this seems quite dated now..... http://buttersideup.com/docs/howto/IPMI_on_Debian.html -- Rahul _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
