Using ipmitool with iLO 2

[pjs_1]

Hi,

Is it possible to use a standard ipmitool to access a server's power control through an HP iLO 2 Standard Interface (in a HP Proliant DL380 G5)?

Thanks

[dirk dierickx · Accepted solution]

not that i know of...

[Mattias Slabanja]

ipmitool chassis power status
and
ipmitool chassis power cycle
works fine on our DL380G5-machines.

We are using CentOS5, and the default OpenIPMI-package.

Name : OpenIPMI
Version : 2.0.6

/Mattias

[skt_skt]

# ipmitool chassis power status
Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory
Unable to get Chassis Power Status
# rpm -qa|grep -i ipmi
OpenIPMI-tools-1.4.14-1.3E.10
OpenIPMI-libs-1.4.14-1.3E.10
OpenIPMI-1.4.14-1.3E.10
OpenIPMI-devel-1.4.14-1.3E.10
# uname -a
Linux lceld143n.noa.alcoa.com 2.4.21-47.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 5 20:38:41 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 8)

[Stuart Browne]

Fully patched RHEL4 here using OpenIPMI-1.4.14-1.4E.17, same outcome.

No Joy.

Anybody using RHEL5?

[Sergey Svishchev]

You have to load drivers and create the device node manually. Try this:

modprobe ipmi_devintf
modprobe ipmi_kcs_drv

mknod /dev/ipmi0 c `cat /proc/devices | grep ipmidev |cut -d " " -f 1` 0