[CentOS] Interesting admin info: ipmitool

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Joseph Spenner wrote:
>  >From: "m.roth at 5-cent.us" <m.roth at 5-cent.us>
>>
>>I've used ipmitool any number of times, but never for more than getting
>>info, or setting the server name on a Dell LCD screen. However, I had a
>>server screaming about intruder alert, intruder alert, er, "Chassis
>>intrusion detected", and I thought there might be a way to shut it up
>>(this after pulling the server and reseating the lid). A quick google
>>found, on the first page, an 8 page document by Dell called "Managing
>> Dell PowerEdge Servers Using IPMItool". It's clear, comprehensible, has
>> links to the ipmitool project, and to the IPMI standard, which has
>> documentation on calls and parameters. It also has some examples...
>> including "How to turn off intrusion detected events".... Other than
>> the device ID being different on my Penguin than on a Dell PE, it was
>> completely accurate...and it worked.
>
> The intruder must not escape!!!
>
> Right.   :)

<g>

> Is this what Dell OpenManage wraps around?  It sounds similar..

Dunno if it wraps around, I thought it was their own implementation.
ipmitool is a standard distro package, and can be run *without* rebooting,
which I like a lot.

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