How To Install OpenIPMI.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install OpenIPMI.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. OpenIPMI.i686 is IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) library and tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install OpenIPMI.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is OpenIPMI.i686

The Open IPMI project aims to develop an open code base to allow access to platform information using Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). This package contains the tools of the OpenIPMI project.

We can use yum to install OpenIPMI.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install OpenIPMI.i686.

Install OpenIPMI.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install OpenIPMI.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install OpenIPMI.i686

How To Uninstall OpenIPMI.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the OpenIPMI.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove OpenIPMI.i686

OpenIPMI.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/ipmi/ipmisim1.emu
/etc/ipmi/lan.conf
/etc/sysconfig/ipmi
/usr/bin/ipmi_sim
/usr/bin/ipmi_ui
/usr/bin/ipmicmd
/usr/bin/ipmilan
/usr/bin/ipmish
/usr/bin/openipmi_eventd
/usr/bin/openipmicmd
/usr/bin/openipmish
/usr/bin/rmcp_ping
/usr/bin/sdrcomp
/usr/bin/solterm
/usr/lib/libIPMIlanserv.so.0
/usr/lib/libIPMIlanserv.so.0.0.1
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ipmi.service
/usr/libexec/openipmi-helper
/usr/share/doc/OpenIPMI-2.0.23
/usr/share/doc/OpenIPMI-2.0.23/CONFIGURING_FOR_LAN
/usr/share/doc/OpenIPMI-2.0.23/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/OpenIPMI-2.0.23/COPYING.BSD
/usr/share/doc/OpenIPMI-2.0.23/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/OpenIPMI-2.0.23/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/OpenIPMI-2.0.23/README
/usr/share/doc/OpenIPMI-2.0.23/README.Force
/usr/share/doc/OpenIPMI-2.0.23/README.MotorolaMXP
/usr/share/man/man1/ipmi_sim.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ipmi_ui.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ipmicmd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ipmish.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/openipmi_eventd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/openipmicmd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/openipmish.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rmcp_ping.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/solterm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/ipmi_lan.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/ipmi_sim_cmd.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/ipmi_cmdlang.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/openipmi_conparms.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmilan.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install OpenIPMI.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.