Information about the package, ipmiutil, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The ipmiutil package is designed for, Easy-to-use IPMI server management utilities.
Package Name:
ipmiutil
Summary:
Easy-to-use IPMI server management utilities
Description:
The ipmiutil package provides easy-to-use utilities to view the SEL, perform an IPMI chassis reset, set up the IPMI LAN and Platform Event Filter entries to allow SNMP alerts, Serial-Over-LAN console, event daemon, and other IPMI tasks. These can be invoked with the metacommand ipmiutil, or via subcommand shortcuts as well. IPMIUTIL can also write sensor thresholds, FRU asset tags, and has a full IPMI configuration save/restore. An IPMI driver can be provided by either the OpenIPMI driver (/dev/ipmi0) or the Intel IPMI driver (/dev/imb), etc. If used locally and no driver is detected, ipmiutil will use user-space direct I/Os instead.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.0.8
Release:
1.el6
Size:
569 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the ipmiutil package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install ipmiutil
This command will install ipmiutil on the server.
yum remove ipmiutil
This command will un-install ipmiutil on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ipmiutil, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove ipmiutil
This command will un-install ipmiutil on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove ipmiutil when using the -y flag.
yum update ipmiutil
This command will update ipmiutil to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ipmiutil, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update ipmiutil
This command will update ipmiutil to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove ipmiutil when using the -y flag.
yum info ipmiutil
This command will show you core information about the ipmiutil package.
yum deplist ipmiutil
This command will show you the dependencies for ipmiutil. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update ipmiutil
This command will check if there is an update waiting on ipmiutil. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.