NAME

       openhpi - an implementation of the SA Forum's Hardware Platform Interface

DESCRIPTION

       OpenHPI is an implementation of the SA Forum's Hardware Platform Interface, which provides a standard C
       library interface to manage, monitor, and control hardware (both local and remote).

       OpenHPI 2.x implements the HPI B.01.01 specification.

       The OpenHPI client library (libopenhpi) provides all the connection functionality needed by the client
       application to connect to the OpenHPI daemon running on the local or remote server.

ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES

       Some of OpenHPI's functioning can be changed by setting environment variables.  This documents all client
       environmental settings.

       OPENHPI_DAEMON_HOST=URL
         URL  for the host running the daemon. This can be "localhost" (default) if the daemon is running on the
         local host or an ip address.

       OPENHPI_DAEMON_PORT=PORT_NUMBER
         The port number the host is listening on for clent connections.  Default port is 4743.

HARDWARE SUPPORT

       OpenHPI provides a number of plugins that talk to different hardware types.  The following is a  list  of
       tested plugins in OpenHPI 2.x.

       ipmi
           An  IPMI plugin that can talk locally (via smi interface and OpenIPMI device driver) or remotely (via
           IPMI over LAN).  It supports IPMI 1.5 for standard rackmount  servers,  and  some  of  IPMI  2.0  for
           support of ATCA chassis.

           IPMI plugin depends on libOpenIPMI version 1.4.x.

       ipmidirect
           An  IPMI  plugin designed specifically for ATCA chassis.  It implements IPMI commands directly in the
           plugin.

       snmp_bc
           An SNMP based plugin that can communicate with IBM BladeCenter, as well as IBM xSeries  servers  with
           RSA 1 adapters.

           SNMP_BC plugin depends on net-snmp > 5.0.7.

       sysfs
           Current status??

       watchdog
           Current status??

OTHER DOCUMENTATION

       The definitive guide to HPI is the SA Forum specification at http://saforum.org.

       More info on OpenHPI can be found at our webpage (http://openhpi.org).

SEE ALSO

       The following man pages may also be of interest

       openhpid
        The openhpi daemon, providing OpenHPI data as a system service.

AUTHORS

       Authors of this man page:

        Sean Dague (http://dague.net/sean)
        Renier Morales (renier@openhpi.org)

2.14.1                                             2009-11-23                                         openhpi(7)