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ipmitool — Interface with the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). More information: <https://man.

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Problem

How to use the ipmitool command: Interface with the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). More information: <https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?ipmitool>.

Solution

ipmitool — Interface with the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). More information: <https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?ipmitool>.

Load the IPMI kernel module for local connections:

kldload ipmi.ko

Open IPMI shell on the local hardware:

ipmitool shell

Open IPMI shell on a remote host:

ipmitool -H {{ip_address}} -U {{user_name}} shell

Code Snippets

Load the IPMI kernel module for local connections

kldload ipmi.ko

Open IPMI shell on the local hardware

ipmitool shell

Open IPMI shell on a remote host

ipmitool -H {{ip_address}} -U {{user_name}} shell

Context

tldr-pages: freebsd/ipmitool

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