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G.1 OpenIPMI
The OpenIPMI project provides an IPMI kernel driver that is available in most Linux
distributions.
The Open IPMI Linux device driver is designed as a fully functional IPMI device driver
with the following features:
 Allows multiple users
 Allows multiple interfaces
 Allows both kernel and userland things to use the interface
 Fully supports the watchdog timer
 Functions like an IPMI driver - tracks outgoing messages, matches responses
automatically, and automatically fetches events and received messages
 Supports interrupts
 Offers backwards-compatibility modules for supporting the Radisys IPMI driver
and Intel IMB driver
 Is modular, users do not need the standard userland interface or watchdog
 Supports generating an event on a panic
Source: OpenIPMI Page (http://openipmi.sourceforge.net/)
Additional information regarding the IPMI driver can be found on the OpenIPMI Proj-
ect page at http://openipmi.sourceforge.net/
The KCS register interfaces are located at 0xCA2 /0xCA3 and are used by the
OpenIPMI driver as default.
G.2 IPMItool
The IPMItool provides an easy-to-use set of functions and commands for accessing
the BMC via the KCS interface from within the MIC-6314 OS or via Ethernet through
NC-SI from an external device. The IPMItool also allows bridged IPMI commands to
access the BMC if the carrier manager provides an IPMI-over-LAN interface. See
Chapters 3 and 4 for more details regarding different access methods and IPMItool
calls.
The IPMITool source code can be downloaded from the official project page at http://
ipmitool.sourceforge.net.