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ipmi - OpenIPMI compatible IPMI interface driver
/dev/ipmi0
The ipmi device is a character special file that provides access to the Intelligent Platform Management Interface for the system. For more information on IPMI and to obtain a copy of the IPMI specification and implementation guidelines, refer to http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/. The driver is adapted from the FreeBSD driver which is in turn adapted from the Linux driver, however, not all features described in the standard are supported. The current implementation depends on the smbios(4D) to discover the existence of an IPMI device.
Sending and receiving messages through the IPMI drivers requires the use of ioctl(2).
The ioctl command codes below are defined in sys/ipmi.h. The third argument to ioctl should be a pointer to the type indicated. Currently the following ioctls are supported:
Stub Only Ioctl
Unimplemented Ioctls
ipmitool(1), ioctl(2), smbios(4D)
Intelligent Platform Management Interface Specification Second Generation, v2.0 — June 12, 2009 Markup
Not all systems include an IPMI.
October 31, 2013 | OmniOS |