Supermicro IPMI View

1.   Introduction
2.   Installing Supermicro IPMI View
2.1   Add IPMI View to the menus

Introduction

IPMI is Intelligent Platform Management Interface

• A specification created by an Intel led committee to create common interface for out-of-band hardware management
• Independent of the Operating System
• Works over UDP port 623 using RMCP (Remote Management Control Protocol), or locally via kernel drivers
• Only available on server hardware which supports it and is similar to LOM (Lights Out Management) and ILO
• Has CLI tools which is similar to the Cisco IOS CLI and some (normally proprietary) GUI tools
• IPMI requires a hardware device called a BMC (Baseboard Management Controller), either built-in to the motherboard or as a daughter card

IPMIView is a Java based GUI to remotely administer IPMI enabled servers.

Installing Supermicro IPMI View

 wget ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/CDR-SIMIPMI_1.12_for_SIM_IPMI/IPMI_Solution/Linux/Administrator/IPMIView-Linux_2.6.38_080201.bin
 chmod 775 IPMIView-Linux_2.6.38_080201.bin
 sudo ./IPMIView-Linux_2.6.38_080201.bin

After a few seconds the installer GUI will be displayed, just follow the wizard. It is the usual Next, Next, Next, Finish effort.

Add IPMI View to the menus

 sudo nano /usr/share/applications/ipmiview.desktop

Add the following and the save the file.

 [Desktop Entry]
 Encoding=UTF-8
 Name=IPMIView
 Comment=Intelligent Platform Manager Interface
 Exec=gksudo /opt/SUPERMICRO/IPMIView/IPMIView20.bin
 Terminal=false
 Type=Application
 Icon=/opt/SUPERMICRO/IPMIView/Ipmiview.ico
 StartupNotify=false
 Categories=Application;

References

• http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/
• http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/sim.cfm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface
• http://wiki.adamsweet.org/doku.php?id=ipmi_on_linux

$Id: SupermicroIPMIView,v 1.3 2008/07/01 11:48:42 martin Exp $