Gareth, thx for your answer.
Michal On 04/24/09 20:50, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > I'm OK with the answer. > > I'd request/recommend that as a matter of good architecture, we (Sun) > change our code so that *either* ipmitool *or* freeipmi is sufficient. > > I think that probably means (since we don't have any other consumers > for freeipmi) architectural advice to try to change the HPC software > that you're planning on using freeipmi tools to be able to use > ipmitool. Possibly that will require an RFE to upgrade ipmitool. > > Put another way, I perceive that it is fine to deliver freeipmi if it > is useful for end-users or other free software. But I believe we > (Sun/OpenSolaris) should standardize on just one of the two tools as a > building block for our own internal software. > > -- Garrett > > Michal Bachorik - Sun Microsystems - Prague Czech Republic wrote: >> Garret, >> >> I asked couple of Sun guys that are using ipmitool whether they see >> some possible interactions: >> >> Kevin Song: ".. the two are independent ipmi client software." >> Hesam Kohanteb: "..These are 2 different clients of IPMI Stack. " >> Mehrdad Mojgani: "..what do they mean by two applications dependency >> other than using the same common driver path and destination. >> Wouldn't there is always a chance that applications can change what >> the other one has set if they don't get exclusive access? " >> >> Well, is the answer "ipmitool and freeipmi are two independent tools" >> satisfying? If not, I will use Mehrdad's words: "what exactly do you >> mean by application dependency"? >> >> Regards, >> >> Michal >> >> On 04/24/09 18:14, Garrett D'Amore wrote: >>> Michal Bachorik - Sun Microsystems - Prague Czech Republic wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Can freeimpi and ipmitool coexist on the same platform? What int4tr >>>> sorry, I do not not know what is "int4tr" - can you explain (or >>>> provide me some link to docs, where I can study it - uncle google >>>> was not helpful, sorry)? anyway, freeipmi and ipmitool can happily >>>> coexist on the same platform. you can think of them like >>>> "vncviewer" and "tvncviewier" (both are VNC clients and both can >>>> coexist on the same platform) >>> >>> I meant to say "What interactions are there?" -- but it looks like >>> the cat walked on my keyboard or something. Sorry about that. >>> >>> -- Garrett >>> >>> >> > >
