install_update_ipmitool

Use the install_update_ipmitool command to install or update the IPMI tool to enable BMC discovery in IBM Electronic Service Agent.

Synopsis

install_update_ipmitool

Description

The install_update_ipmitool command is located in the location /opt/ibm/esa/bin/. The install_update_ipmitool command installs or upgrades IPMI tool on the IBM Electronic Service Agent installed system to enable BMC discovery by ESA. The command searches whether IPMI tool is already installed or not. If not, it searches in yum/zypper and try to installs. It then verifies the successful execution of the IPMI tool and displays the message - Please restart ESA as ipmitool has been installed/upgraded.

Options

--force: This option must be supplied with rpmFilePath (https, http, ftp, localFilepath), tries to upgrade the IPMI tool on the IBM Electronic Service Agent installed system by using the rpmFilePath even though IPMI is installed.; rpmFilePath - Using the rpm file path that you can install or upgrade the IPMI tool.

Exit status

The following table contains the codes that are returned by this command.

0 - The operation completed successfully.
-1 - The operation failed
4 - Incorrect combination or options provided.

Examples

```
./install_update_ipmitool
```
```
./install_update_ipmitool --force
```

./install_update_ipmitool ipmitool-1.8.11-0.20.30.1.ppc64.rpm

./install_update_ipmitool --force ipmitool-1.8.11-0.20.30.1.ppc64.rpm

./install_update_ipmitool http://hostname:portNo/ipmitool-1.8.11-0.20.30.1.ppc64.rpm1

```
./install_update_ipmitool ftpurl
```
```
./install_update_ipmitool httpsurl
```