Kontron AM5010 IPMI - Manual (Page 34)

IPMI Firmware User Guide AM5010
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6.14 OS Support / Tools
6.14.1 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:
http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/tools.htm
6.14.2 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
http://openipmi.sourceforge.net . There the
OpenIPMI project may be downloaded as well. The OpenIPMI library package includes some
applications and the required 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 indepth IPMI knowledge from the user side.
Another very useful all-in-one tool is the ipmitool (
http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net ). It
provides a user friendly interface to IPMI features.
6.14.3 Windows
Intel provides KCS reference drivers for Windows and the IPMI Conformance Test Suite
(ICTS), they are available at the following address:
http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/tools.htm