OpenIPMI Driver
OpenIPMI Driver is included in all IBM® supported Ubuntu distributions.
The driver consists of several driver modules.
Note: An earlier,
closed source deprecated driver is known as the OSA IPMI driver that
is used with older versions of Linux.
However, you can consider using the OpenIPMI driver.
Activating the IPMI Service
To start using the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) to manage your hardware, activate the IPMI service by running the following commands:
# chkconfig ipmi on
# service ipmi start
# service ipmi status
ipmi_msghandler module loaded.
ipmi_si module loaded.
ipmi_devintf module loaded.
/dev/ipmi0 exists.Note: This command
loads the following basic drivers: ipmi_msghandler, ipmi_devintf,
and ipmi_si.
