Michal Bachorik - Sun Microsystems - Prague Czech Republic wrote:
> 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.
Rereading the above sentence, I realize it can be misinterpreted. I
think we need to pick one of these tools and standardize on it. I did
not mean to imply that any tools should be modified to support both
ipmitool and freeipmi. Sun need to choose one of the tools and use it
for our base line.
Hopefully the above statement is clearer.
-- Garrett
>>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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