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IPMI Firmware User Guide: AM4010
6.13 OS Support / Tools
6.13.1 DOS
There is a low-level DOS command line tool provided by Intel that allows hex-formatted
IPMI commands to be sent to the management controller via KCS interface. The IPMI
Command Test Tool can be found at:
6.13.2 Linux
Normally all drivers and kernel modules needed for communication between the payload
sided software and the MMC firmware via the KCS interface come with the distribution.
Newest sources can be downloaded from
ay be
downloaded the OpenIPMI project as well. The OpenIPMI library package includes some
applications and the needed libraries. One of the applications is ‘ipmicmd’ which makes it
possible to send and receive raw IPMI sequences; another, the ‘ipmi_ui’, provides a higher
level interface and thus it does not require deep IPMI knowledge from the user side.
Another very useful all-in-one tool is the ipmitool (
provides a user friendly interface to many IPMI features and extensions, for example to
PICMG LED control and Kontron FWUM.
There is a Kontron Modular Computers’ IPMI ToolKit which contains some tools for the
customer for the monitoring and the maintenance of some IPMI functionalities.
The following command line tools are included in the IPMI ToolKit:
• frum: display and modification of FRU data
• temptool: selection, display, and storage of temperature and voltage sensor values
All these tools are OpenIPMI based. This toolkit is available on the “AMC Kit CD”. If this
CD was not shipped with your module then please contact our support (
).
Please refer to the manual "MAN_LIN_IPMI_TOOLKIT_0103.pdf" being included in the
package.
6.13.3 Windows
Intel provides KCS reference drivers for Windows and the IPMI Conformance Test Suite
(ICTS), they are available at the following address:
ID: 36363, Rev. 1.1
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