Server Management Guide

Scenarios and Best Practices
94 Intel
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Server Boards and Server Platforms Server Management Guide
The following figure displays the Linux* SOL login console:
Figure 57. SuSE Linux* SOL login console
5.5 Remote Manage the Server using IPMITOOL
Apart from The Intel
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Command Line Interface (CLI), Intel
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Servers is IPMI2.0 standard, it follows
IPMI Spec 2.0 and able to support open sourced IPMITOOL and other IPMI utilities.
Open Sourced IPMITOOL, the customer can perform both in-band and out-of band solution to
communicated with Intel
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Server’s Integrated BMC:
NOTE
Intel
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verified most IPMITOOL works for Intel
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server platforms, as IPMITOOL is open sourced,
Intel
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has no control on IPMITOOL or IPMI related utility itself, Intel
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cannot guarantee any fix on
IPMITOOL itself.
5.5.1 Run IPMITOOL using in-band Solution
IPMITOOL support in-band solution. In order to make it work, you have to make sure start OpenIPMI
in advance and which will enable OS talk to Integrated BMC:
[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/ipmi start
Starting ipmi drivers: [ OK ]
[root@localhost ~]#
Then you can run any IPMITOOL in-band command line to retrieve system information: