I used the dmidecode option at first, unfortunately, some boards report ipmi support even when they don't have a proper support. See here for such cases https://github.com/zoide/puppet-ipmi/issues/1 So now I'm looking for specifically 2.0 verision tags, I'll have to investigate more if there are newer versions...
2014-03-12 16:15 GMT+01:00 Joan <[email protected]>: > Thanks Al, this is exactly what I was looking for, I had been looking > for it but didn't appear on my searches, I'll test it on more systems, > but it looks good. > Thanks a lot :) > > 2014-03-12 15:44 GMT+01:00 Al Chu <[email protected]>: >> Hi Joan, >> >> Thinking about this a little bit more. If you wrote a script that did >> the two commands I list in the FAQ (ipmi-locate and dmidecode), if you >> cannot find IPMI via both of those mechanisms, I think with 99.99% >> certainty, that system won't have IPMI. It's hard for me to imagine a >> modern-ish server not having something about IPMI in both of those >> outputs. >> >> Al >> >> On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 07:36 -0700, Al Chu wrote: >>> Hi Joan, >>> >>> The part of the FAQ should hopefully answer your question??? >>> >>> http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/freeipmi-faq.html#Does-my-system-support-IPMI_003f >>> >>> If not, please feel free to follow up. >>> >>> Al >>> >>> On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 08:16 +0100, Joan wrote: >>> > Hi, I've been using ipmi-sensors on several server servers to monitor >>> > hardware issues, I would like to extend the usage to all of our >>> > physical servers but I've found out that on serveral I can't load the >>> > modules, and after looking into the documentation I've found out that >>> > those models doesn't have an ipmi controller. >>> > Is there an easy way to detect if there is ipmi support on a server? >>> > >>> > So far I am guessing the machines with ipmi support by loading >>> > ipmi_si, but it's slow and loading modules can be troubling sometimes, >>> > so, is there any other way to do it? >>> > >>> > Regards, >>> > >>> > Joan >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Freeipmi-users mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users >> -- >> Albert Chu >> [email protected] >> Computer Scientist >> High Performance Systems Division >> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory >> _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
