IPMIUtil for Windows

IPMIUtil for Windows

Download IPMIUtil from SourceForge:

http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/

Install IPMI Driver:

 https://siliconmechanics.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/208826086

Unzip files to any location and run as needed from command line. 

 

  • ipmiutil - a meta-command to invoke each of the functions below
  • ipmiutil alarms (ialarms) - show and set the front panel alarms (LEDs and Relays)
  • ipmiutil config (iconfig) - list/save/restore the BMC configuration parameters
  • ipmiutil cmd (icmd) - send specific IPMI commands to the BMC, mainly for testing and debug purposes.
  • ipmiutil discover (idiscover) - discover the available IPMI LAN nodes on a subnet.
  • ipmiutil events (ievents) - a standalone utility to decode IPMI events and PET data
  • ipmiutil firewall (ifirewall) - discover the available IPMI LAN nodes on a subnet.
  • ipmiutil fru (ifru) - show decoded FRU board/product inventory data, write FRU asset tag
  • ifruset - show decoded FRU inventory data, set FRU product area
  • iseltime - show and set the IPMI SEL time according to the system time
  • ipmiutil fwum (ifwum) - OEM firmware update manager extensions
  • ipmiutil getevt (igetevent) - receive any IPMI events and display them
  • ipmiutil health (ihealth) - check and report the basic health of the IPMI BMC
  • ipmiutil hpm (ihpm) - HPM firmware update manager extensions
  • ipmiutil lan (ilan) - show and configure the LAN port and Platform Event Filter table to generate BMC LAN alerts via firmware events.
  • ipmiutil picmg (ipicmg) - discover the available IPMI LAN nodes on a subnet.
  • ipmiutil reset (ireset) - cause the BMC to hard reset or power down the system
  • ipmiutil sel (isel) - a tool to show the firmware System Event Log records
  • ipmiutil sensor (isensor) - show the Sensor Data Records, readings, and thresholds.
  • ipmiutil serial (iserial) - a tool to show and configure the BMC Serial port for various modes, like Terminal Mode
  • ipmiutil sol (isol) - start or stop an IPMI Serial-Over-LAN Console session
  • ipmiutil sunoem (isunoem) - Sun OEM functions
  • ipmiutil wdt (iwdt) - show and set the watchdog timer
  • checksel - cron script using ipmiutil sel to check the SEL, write new events to the OS system log, and clear the SEL if nearly full.
  • ipmi_port - daemon to bind the RMCP port and sleep to prevent Linux portmap from stealing the RMCP port
  • ipmiutil_wdt - init script to restart watchdog timer every 60 sec via cron
  • ipmiutil_asy - init script runs 'ipmiutil getevt -a' for remote shutdown
  • ipmiutil_evt - init script runs 'ipmiutil getevt -s' for monitoring events
  • hpiutil/* - a set of parallel HPI utilities, conforming to the SA Forum Hardware Platform Interface, also the basis of the openhpi/clients/.
  • bmc_panic - a kernel patch to save information if the system panics. Included in the OpenIPMI driver in kernels 2.6 and greater. Included in the Intel IMB driver in v28 and greater.
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