please activate IPMI support

[Holger Levsen]

package: fai-kernels
version: 1.13
severity: wishlist

On Wednesday 15 November 2006 08:17, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> > > it might also make sense to activate IPMI support.
> > Can you please tell me the name of the option and what it does?
>
> CONFIG_IPMI_HANDLER=m
> # CONFIG_IPMI_PANIC_EVENT is not set
> CONFIG_IPMI_DEVICE_INTERFACE=m
> CONFIG_IPMI_SI=m
> CONFIG_IPMI_WATCHDOG=m
> CONFIG_IPMI_POWEROFF=m
>
> IPMI is an interface to "baseboard controllers": you can switch a box
> on/off, query sensors readings & events, and even run serial over LAN (some
> have real VGA over HTTP/Java). Very nice to have if you have to set up a
> big cluster and find out why a certain machine is misbehaving. "ipmitool"
> is the corresponding userspace utility.


regards,
	Holger
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