IPMItool

A major feature and bugfix release that includes support for PICMG (ATCA) management controllers, better support for Sensors and Events and Inventory data, fixes for IPMIv2 encryption and IPMIv2 Serial-over-LAN, and support for the Tyan implementation of IPMIv1.5 Serial-over-LAN.

Major feature additions include support for IPMIv2.0 and Serial over LAN, as well as an interactive IPMI shell and scripting capabilities. Many new user-contributed features and bugfixes including support for configuring BMC parameters, LAN channel settings, and configuring session users. Also new in this release is support for automatic building of Solaris packages and Linux RPMs as a non-root user.

Support was added for setting sensor thresholds and reading individual sensor values by name. The LAN interface retry handing was improved. Some fixes were made for multiple clients accessing sensor data simultaneously and reading large FRU data. Passwords can now be read from the environment or interactively. There are some minor fixes for building on Solaris 8.

Support was added for building static interface plugins. Support for 64-bit and big-endian systems was improved for Solaris/SPARC and Linux/x86_64. Some fixes for enabling the LAN interface and configuring gratuitous ARPs were added. Support for displaying Linux kernel panic messages in SEL output was added. Support for SDR type 3 records was added.

Some IPMIv1.5 errata fixes were added. FRU
multirecord support was added for power supplies
and DIMM SPD. Verbose SDR output was added in CSV
mode. Handling of SDR printing was improved.
Support was added for SDR compact records and MC
locator records. Contrib scripts for creating
RRDtool graphs were added.