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NAME

       ipmi_ui - Crude interface to an IPMI system

SYNOPSIS

       ipmiui [-dmsg] [-dmem] [-c] connection-1[connection-2]

       The connections are specified as either:

       smi smi-num

       or

       lan IP-addr port [IP-addr-2 port-2] auth privilege username password

DESCRIPTION

       The  ipmi_ui  program  connects  to an IPMI system, and allows access to IPMI entities and
       sensors and OpenIPMI controls.  It's rather crude, and primarily for testing OpenIPMI, but
       it has some use beyond that so it is provided.

       Normally,  ipmi_ui starts up in a full-screen format.  The left window shows the output of
       commands, the right window shows the logs from OpenIPMI.  Both windows are scrollable with
       page  up  and  page down keys, press the "F1" key to choose the the left window to scroll,
       the "F2" key to choose the right window to scroll.

       Note that you must set your environment TERM  variable  properly  for  your  terminal,  or
       ipmi_ui will display garbage on the screen.

       Note  that you can put two connection specifications on the command line, and ipmi_ui will
       make two connection.  You can only do this if the connections are to the same IPMI  domain
       through  different  management  controllers.   Also,  each  LAN connection may have two IP
       addresses.  These are two different addresses to the same management controller.   So  you
       may  have  a total of 4 IP addresses to an IPMI domain, two management controllers and two
       IP adresses to each management controller.

OPTIONS

       -dmsg  Turn on message debugging, this will dump all messages to the log window.

       -dmem  Turn on memory debugging, this will cause memory allocation and deallocations to be
              checked.   When  the  program  terminates,  it  will  dump  all memory that was not
              properly freed (leaked).

       -snmp  Enable the SNMP trap handler.  ipmi_ui must be compiled with SNMP code enabled  for
              this option to be available.

       -c     Run  the  program  in command-line mode.  This is useful for scripting.  All output
              goes to standard output, there is no windowing.

       smi-num
              The SMI number to connect to, for systems  with  more  than  on  system  interface.
              Generally, this is '0'.

       IP-addr
              The IP address of the LAN interface.

       port   The UDP port of the LAN interface, general 623.

       IP-addr-2
              Some systems support multiple IP connections, this specified the second address and
              is optional.  If specified, OpenIPMI will use both IP addresses and  fail  over  to
              the working one if one of them fails.

       port-2 The port for the second IP connection, generally 623.

       auth   The  authorization  to use for the connection, either "none", "straight", "md5", or
              "md2".

       privilege
              The privilege to use for the connection, either "callback", "user", "operator",  or
              "admin".  Note that some IPMI operations will fail without the correct privilege.

       username
              The user name to use for the connection.  If using this anonymous user, this should
              be the empty string "".

       password
              The password to use for the connection.

ENTITIES

       Entities are listed by their entity id (the type of entity  they  are)  and  their  entity
       instance.   Entities  may be active or inactive in the system, the standard IPMI algorithm
       for determining this is used.  Commands on entities are:

       entities
              List all the entities in the system.  The output is the entity specifier,  followed
              by an optional entity name in parenthesis, followed by "present" or "not present".

       check_presence
              For the check of presence for all entities.

       fru entity
              List the FRU information associated with the entity.

       dump_fru is_logical device_address device_id lun private_bus channel
              Dump raw information from the specified FRU device.

SENSORS

       Sensors define input devices that OpenIPMI can monitor.

       sensors entity
              List  all  the  sensors  that  monitor  the given entity.  The output is the sensor
              specifier (the entity specifier followed by the sensor name, with spaces  converted
              to ~). followed by the sensor name.

       sensor sensor
              Pull up the given sensor and display all its information.  In full-screen mode, the
              sensor will be re-queried every second.

       rearm global [assertion-mask deassertion-mask]
              Rearm the given sensor.  If global is 1, then the  whole  sensor  is  rearmed.   If
              global is 0, then the assertion-mask and deassertion-mask must be specified telling
              which thresholds or states to rearm.

       events_enable events scanning assertion-bitmask deassertion-bitmask
              Enable or disable events for the given sensor.  events turns events on or off  from
              the  sensor  (0  or 1).  scanning turns scanning on or off for the sensor (0 or 1).
              assertion-bitmask specifies the bitmask of thresholds  or  states  that  should  be
              enabled or disabled when a thrshold or state is asserted.  It is a bunch of 0's and
              1's, where the first one is for threshold/state 0, the second  for  threshold/state
              1,  etc.   deassertion-bitmask  specifies  the bitmask of thresholds or states that
              should be enabled or disabled when a thrshold or state is deasserted.

CONTROLS

       Controls are output devices that can control things like  LEDs,  power,  reset  lines  and
       such.

       controls entity
              List  all  the  controls  that control the given entity.  The output is the control
              specifier (the entity specifier followed by the control name, with spaces converted
              to ~). followed by the control name.

       control control
              Pull up the given control and display it's current state.

       set_control val1 [val2 ...]
              Change  the value of a control.  Note that for controls with multiple values, every
              value must be specified.

EVENTS

       Events are asynchronous messages from sensors that tell the user that a  sensor  has  done
       something.   Events  are generally stored in a system event log (SEL); OpenIPMI will fetch
       the events from the SELs in the system.

       Since multiple SELs may exist, an event is specified by the MC it came from in the  format
       "(channel addr)" and a log number.  The same log number may exist in multiple MCs.

       Events  are displayed in the log window as they come in.  If they can be correlated with a
       sensor, they will be display with as much information as possible.

       delevent channel mc-addr log-num
              Delete the given event.  Note that many SELs do not support individual deletes,  so
              this  may only delete the local copy of the event, not the one in the SEL.  In this
              case, to delete events in the SEL, you must delete all the events in  the  SEL  and
              wait about 10 seconds for OpenIPMI to do a full SEL clear.

       clear_sel
              Delete  all  events in the SEL.  This process may take some time, so if you do this
              and quit immediately it may not be complete.

       list_sel
              List all events in the local copy of the SELs.  This is only the local copy, if the
              copies in the actual have change, this won't be reflected.

       get_sel_time channel mc-num
              Get the time in the SEL for the given MC.

MANAGMENT CONTROLLERS (MCs)

       In  OpenIPMI,  you  normally  don't deal with management controllers.  They are considered
       internal to the system.  However, for debugging, information about them is provided.

       mcs    List all the MCs in the system and whether they are active.  MCs are  displayed  in
              the format "(channel address)".

       mc channel mc-addr
              Display  a  boatload of information about the MC, mostly coming from the get device
              id command.

       mccmd channel mc-addr LUN NetFN Cmd [data ...]
              Send an IPMI command to the given MC.  The MC must exist and be active to do this.

       mc_reset channel mc-addr [warm | cold]
              Send a warm or cold reset command to the given MC.  The  action  the  MC  takes  is
              system-specific.

       scan channel mc-addr
              Scan  for  an  MC  at the given address.  If the MC exists but OpenIPMI didn't know
              about it, it will be added.  If the MC no longer exists, then it will be removed.

       mc_events_enable channel mc-num enabled
              Enable or disable event generation for the given MC.

       mc_events_enabled channel mc-num
              Prints out if the events are enabled for the given MC.

LAN Parameter Configuration

       OpenIPMI has functions that make it easier to  configure  the  LAN  parameters  of  a  LAN
       connection.   Note  that the LAN parameters have a lock that OpenIPMI attempts to use.  If
       you read the LAN parameters, they will be locked until you either write them or clear  the
       lock.

       readlanparm channel mc-num channel
              Read lanparm information from an MC and display it in the display window.

       viewlanparm
              Show current lanparm information in the display window.

       writelanparm channel mc-num channel
              Write the current LANPARM information to an MC.  Note that this must be the MC that
              the parameters were read from.

       clearlanparmlock [channel mc-num channel]
              Clear a LANPARM lock.  If the MC is  given,  then  the  LANPARM  lock  is  directly
              cleared.  If not given, then the LANPARM lock for the current parms is cleared.

       setlanparm config [selector] value
              Set  the  given  config item to the value.  The optional selector is used for items
              that take a selector, like "auth" or any of the items in "destination".

Platform Event Filter (PEF)

       OpenIPMI contains function to help manage the PEF settings on a BMC.  Note  that  the  PEF
       parameters  have  a  lock  that OpenIPMI attempts to use.  If you read the PEF parameters,
       they will be locked until you either write them or clear the lock.

       readpef channel mc-num
              Read the PEF information from an MC.

       clearpeflock [channel mc-num]
              Clear a PEF lock.  If the MC is given, then the PEF lock on  that  MC  is  directly
              cleared.  If no MC is given, then the current PEF's lock is cleared.

       viewpef
              Show current pef information in the display window.

       writepef channel mc-num
              Write the current PEF information to an MC.

       setpef config [selector] value
              Set  the  given  config item to the value.  The optional selector is used for items
              that take a selector, like anything in the event filters, alert policies, or  alert
              strings.

       pet  connection  channel  ip-addr  mac_addr eft-selector policy-num apt-selector lan-dest-
       selector
              Set up the connection for the domain to send PET traps from the given connection to
              the  given  IP/MAC  address  over the given channel.  This does all the LAN and PEF
              configuration required to configure a system to send event traps.

CONNECTIONS

       OpenIPMI can maintain multiple connections to a single domain.  It will generally only use
       one  of  these  at a time (although the other will constantly be under test).  This is the
       "active" connection.  You can query and set which connection is active.

       The connection number is the connection from  the  command  line.   You  can  specify  two
       connections  on  the command line (the part beginning with "lan", "smi", etc.).  The first
       connection you specify is connection zero, the second is connection 1.

       is_con_active connection
              Print out if the given connection is active or not.

       activate_con connection
              Activate the given connection.

OTHER COMMANDS

       msg channel IPMB-addr LUN NetFN Cmd [data ...]
              Send an IPMI command to the given IPMB address.  This  is  available  in  case  the
              given MC cannot be found or enabled.

       sdrs channel mc-addr do-sensors
              Dump  all  the sdrs from the given MC.  If do-sensors is true, then dump the device
              SDR.  If it is false, dump the main SDR repository on the MC.

       scan channel IPMB-addr
              Perform an IPMB bus scan for the given IPMB, to try to detect an MC  at  the  given
              address.   IPMB  bus  scanning  can  be  slow, this can help speed things up if you
              already know the address.

       quit   Leave the program.

       reconnect
              Attempt to disconnect and reconnect to the IPMI controller.  This is primarily  for
              testing.

       display_win
              Set  the  display  window  (left  window)  for scrolling, just in case the "F1" key
              doesn't work.

       log_win
              Set the log window (right window) for scrolling, just in case the "F2" key  doesn't
              work.

       help   Dump some terse help output about all the commands.

ERROR OUTPUT

       All error output goes to the log window.

SEE ALSO

       ipmilan(8)

KNOWN PROBLEMS

       Our name is legion.

AUTHOR

       Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>