IPMI notes

From Tim Cook:

most Intel server boards come preinstalled with their own Network port
and IPMI built in. SuperMicro Sells the Add in Card for most of there
boards and NEwIsys comes with a form of IPMI
built in, but NEWISYS surpasses any of the other board vendors that I
have seen when it comes to remote management they actually have a web
bases GUI to handle theres, but you will have to pay an arm and a leg
for that capability and I think that it is only Opteron based.

You can find some options by searcing for IPMI on pricewatch.com.

FOSS software related to IPMI:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/openipmi/
device driver and library
OpenIPMI is an effort to create a full-function IPMI system to allow
full access to all IPMI information on a server and to abstract it to
a level that will make it easy to use.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/freeipmi/
userspace IMPI tools
GNU FreeIPMI is a suite of packages for controlling hardware that provides
an interface compliant with the Intelligent Platform Management Interface
(IPMI) specification.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/ipmitool/
A command-line utility to control IPMI-enabled devices.
IPMItool is a simple command-line interface to systems that support
the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification. It
provides the ability to read the SDR and print sensor values, display the
contents of the SEL, print FRU information, read and set LAN configuration
parameters, perform remote chassis power control, and act as a serial
over LAN client. It can work with IPMI-over-LAN (both version 1.5 and
2.0) interfaces as well as the system interface provided by a kernel
driver such as OpenIPMI.

http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/
The IPMI Management Utilities provide a series of utilities that perform
common IPMI server management functions, such as setup for the BMC
LAN & PEF features (pefconfig). They are designed for end-users,
so that they should not require intimate knowledge of how to build IPMI
commands. These utilities can be used separately, or merged with a larger
server management subsystem. The source license is BSD and ipmiutil
compiles under Linux (Makefile) and Windows (doc/mk.bat). There are
also corresponding standard HPI utilities that run with two different
HPI implementations, including OpenHPI. These were the basis of the
current openhpi/clients.

ASL's page about IPMI, including some screenshots that say a thousand words:

http://www.aslab.com/support/ipmi.html