Rahul Nabar wrote: > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Skylar Thompson <sky...@cs.earlham.edu> > wrote: > > >>> THanks Joe! I've been reading about IPMI and also talking to my vendor >>> about it. Sure, our machines also have IPMI support! >>> >>> Question: What's the difference between SOL and IPMI. Is one a subset >>> of the other? >>> >>> >> SOL is provided by IPMI v1.5+, so it's a part of IPMI itself. >> >> > > Last two days I was playing with ipmitool to connect to the machines. > Is this the typical tool or do people have any other open source > sugesstions to use. > > ipmitool seems to have a rich set of features for querying the BMC's > etc. but I didn't see many SOL sections. Is ipmitool what people use > to watch a redirected console as well or anything else? I couldn't > find any good SOL howtos or tutorials on google other than the > vendor-specific ones. ANy pointers? > > I did find this one from a fellow Beowulfer but this seems quite dated > now..... > > http://buttersideup.com/docs/howto/IPMI_on_Debian.html > > That's what we use. You'd do something like "ipmitool -a -H hostname -U username -I lanplus sol activate" will do the trick.
-- -- Skylar Thompson (sky...@cs.earlham.edu) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
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