FreeBSD and IPMI how-to (was Re: su problem)

[Sean Bruno]

On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 18:27 -0700, Matthew X. Economou wrote:
> Daniel Braniss writes:
> 
> > just for the record, serial on 8.x works fine! the device naming
> > has changed from sio to uart, and maybe some features. We use it
> > on all our servers, even redirecting it where possible via
> > ILO,IMPI,DRAC.  and is great for debuging or saving long trips :-)
> 
> Would some kind soul point me to a howto for configuring IPMI on
> FreeBSD?  I have a Dell PowerEdge 840 that supports IPMI, but I have
> no idea how to set it up - either in the BIOS or in FreeBSD.  I've
> messed around with ipmitools a little, but I haven't gotten it to
> work.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Matthew
> 


I would start with installing the ipmitool port.  Other may suggest
freeipmi and openipmi for great justice.

try poking around with "sudo ipmitool shell" and see if you can figure
out what's going on.

Sean