FreeIPMI 0.8.1 has been released. It can be downloaded at: http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/download.html
What is IPMI? The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification defines a set of interfaces for platform management. It is implemented by a large number of hardware manufacturers to support system management on motherboards. The features of IPMI that most users will be interested in are sensor monitoring (i.e. CPU temperatures, fan speeds), remote power control, and serial-over-LAN (SOL). What is FreeIPMI? FreeIPMI provides in-band and out-of-band IPMI software based on the IPMI v1.5/2.0 specification. FreeIPMI provides tools and libraries for users to access and read IPMI sensor readings, system event log (SEL) entries, serial-over-LAN (SOL), remote power control functions, field replaceable unit (FRU) device information, and more. More information about FreeIPMI can be found at the FreeIPMI webpage at: http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/index.html Release 0.8.1 Changes --------------------- High Level Description of Changes ----------------------------------------- o Support ipmi-dcmi, Data Center Management Interface (often referred to as DCM or DCMI). o Make output of ipmi-sel, ipmi-sensors, and ipmimonitoring easier to read and consistent to each other. Under default output, sensors listed in ipmi-sensors and ipmimonitoring are identical. Legacy output is supported through the --legacy-output option. o Rename pef-config to ipmi-pef-config for naming consistency. o Make output of ipmi-chassis, bmc-info, bmc-device, and info output of ipmi-sel, ipmi-sensors, and ipmi-pef-config consistent to each other. o When querying active/inactive, allowed/unallowed, true/false, etc. status fields in ipmi-chassis, bmc-info, and bmc-device, output all fields instead of only the active/allowed/true/etc. fields. o Support exclusion equivalent options (such as --exclude-sensor-types) in various tools such as ipmi-sel, ipmi-sensors, and ipmimonitoring. o Support sensor unit percentages, rates, and modifiers (e.g. "% hit", "gigabyte per minute", "pounds / cu in") in most tools. o Support non-abbreviated units (e.g. "Amps" instead of "A") in most tools. o Output IANA Manufacturer Name when appropriate in most tools. o Support Entity ID based sensor naming through the --entity-sensor-names option in many tools. o Support OEM interpreted output through the --interpret-oem-data option in many tools. o "Library-ize" much of the functionality originally only included in tools. o Re-work libipmimonitoring to return sensor events for all sensors, not just non-threshold sensors. Resulted in an API change. o Removed many short options for more consistent command line "architecture" between tools and to ensure short options are more consistent between tools. Limit short options to only the most popular options. Short options have been removed from ipmipower, ipmiconsole, bmc-watchdog, ipmi-chassis, ipmimonitoring, ipmi-sel, and ipmi-raw. See details below for specific short options removed. o Various new options and features added to most tools. o Various minor feature enhancements. o Various bug fixes. o Various documentation updates. For full list of changes see: http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/NEWS Al -- Albert Chu ch...@llnl.gov Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
