On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 13:14 +0100, Joan wrote: > 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...
There is only IPMI 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0, so there shouldn't be anything newer than that. Of course, that doesn't mean a vendor gets that field wrong or does something else with it :-( Al > 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 -- 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
