CentOS 7.x About ipmitool

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CentOS 7.x About ipmitool

ipmitool can be used to query idrac etc. to get server power status or to reboot/power on server if required. It has lot of options related to communicating with out-of-band-management ports of servers. It can be installed using:

yum -y install OpenIPMI ipmitool

After this the tool can be used using server out-of-band-management IP address, username and password

Refer:

• http://www.openfusion.net/linux/ipmi_on_centos
• https://wiki.ncsa.illinois.edu/display/ITS/IPMI+configuration+from+within+the++CentOS+6%2C7+Operating+System
• https://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q04-20040204-murphy.pdf
• https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100028820