On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009, nate wrote: > >Timothy Murphy wrote: > > ... > > >> How would I access it if it were available? > > > >You have to configure it first, how you do that depends, sometimes > >you can configure it via openipmi. > > I just installed the OpenIPMI-tools package with yum yesterday on > a Supermicro box that seems to be having overheating or fan > problems. This is my first time looking into IPMI monitoring, > but looking at the contents of the OpenIPMI-tools rpm package, it > seems to be missing some of the configuration files necessary to > run things like the ipmievd daemon (e.g. no /etc/init.d/ipmievd > script, only /usr/share/ipmitool/ipmievd.init.redhat Yes, ipmievd is lacking a proper init.d script and if you want to run it the file you found above is probably the way to go (copy it to /etc/init.d/..., chkconfig, etc.). But evd is not needed to talk to the IPMI-controller/BMC/service-processor/whatever. To talk locally the only thing needed is to start the ipmi service (init.d-file from the OpenIPMI package) and then, for example, "ipmitool sel list". /Peter > , and the > so sample of the /etc/sysconfig/ipmievd file). > > Any suggestions on documentation covering configuration on CentOS > systems? I have no problems with RTFM, if only I know where to > find TFM. > > Bill
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