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authorJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2014-07-06 18:04:32 +0200
committerJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2014-07-06 18:04:32 +0200
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+IPMIUTIL PROJECT TODO LIST:
+
+IPV6:
+ . implement IPV6 for Windows
+
+SuperMicro Users:
+ . implement OEM cmd to set user privilege level
+
+SPD decoding:
+ . expose SPD decoding from file/buffer, not just FRU
+ c handle DDR3 SPD 1.0 format
+ PARTIAL in ipmiutil-2.9.1
+
+Add additional IPMI 2.0 commands from addendum:
+ c Get/Set System Info
+ . Get/Set SEL UTC Offset (requested 4/22/13)
+ . Forwarded Command
+ PARTIAL in ipmiutil-2.8.1, adding Get/Set System Info functions
+
+Add DCMI 1.5 commands for NetFn 0x2C to ipmiutil
+ . Get/Set DCMI Configuration Parameters (DCMI 1.5)
+ . Get/Set Thermal Limit (DCMI 1.5)
+
+Add an option/variant of canonical output for CSV (delimiter = ',')
+
+Change ipmicmd.c to be thread-safe if accessing multiple nodes.
+ Currently is only conditionally safe, if threads access the same node.
+ Will require adding a context struct param to the ipmi_cmd*() funcs.
+ Probably need to add new thread-safe functions to retain back-compatibility.
+ PARTIAL in ipmiutil-2.9.0, multiple nodes in sequence is fixed
+
+Add support for MAC OSX AppleBMC.kext driver
+ not yet implemented, pending some documentation.
+
+More automated testing
+ Started this in ipmiutil-2.6.6 with testipmi.sh, but it could be
+ more extensive and be tested on more types of IPMI firmware.
+ PARTIAL in ipmiutil-2.6.6 with testipmi.sh
+
+Remove assert() calls from lanplus code
+ Need to improve error handling and remove all assert() calls from
+ the lib/lanplus/ code: lanplus.c lanplus_crypt.c lanplus_crypt_impl.c
+ This requires test cases for the assert instances.
+ PARTIAL in ipmiutil-2.4.0, removed 2 asserts from lanplus.c
+ PARTIAL in ipmiutil-2.7.0, removed 1 more assert from lanplus.c
+ PARTIAL in ipmiutil-2.8.8, more from lanplus_crypt.c/lanplus_crypt_impl.c
+
+Add a function to send ctl-alt-del through SOL console
+ Although this is seldom used in a serial console environment, it
+ could be useful. To do this, the one-character escape sequence
+ would need to be changed to a 2 character escape sequence.
+ Also need a method to insert the key sequence in the console.
+ PARTIAL in ipmiutil-2.5.0 includes the 2-character escape sequence
+ and a send_break function.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+IPMIUTIL COMPLETED TODO TASKS:
+
+Add support for a MAC OSX client
+ It should work with minor compile-time adjustments.
+ We need a system running OSX on which to build and test this.
+ Changes to compile on MACOS submitted to SVN on 04/12/2013
+ Support for AppleBMC.kext not yet implemented, pending documentation.
+ COMPLETED in ipmiutil-2.9.1
+
+Add snmptrap functionality to getevent -r example script
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.9.1
+
+Add DCMI 1.1 commands for NetFn 0x2C to ipmiutil
+ (0xDC defines the body code)
+ The command codes under this NetFn are:
+ c Get DCMI Capabilities Info
+ c Get/Set Management Controller Identifier String
+ c Get/Set Asset Tag
+ c Get DCMI Sensor Info
+ c Get Temperature Readings
+ c Get Power Reading
+ c Get/Set Power Limit
+ The remainder DCMI specified commands are from the IPMI specification
+ IMPLEMENTED in ipmiutil-2.8.1
+ COMPLETE (power options tested) in ipmiutil-2.8.4
+
+Perform retries on retries for some get/set lan parameters
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.8.1 by using set_max_kcs_loops()
+
+Add an oem_hp.c module with decode_sensor_hp() to
+ interpret HP discrete sensors with analog readings
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.8.2
+
+Add systemd scripts for ipmi_port, ipmiutil_evt, etc.
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.7.8, not default but installed in /usr/share/ipmiutil
+ ipmi_port.service, ipmiutil_evt.service,
+ ipmiutil_asy.service, ipmiutil_wdt.service
+
+Add IPv6 support
+ There is at least one IPMI BMC that has added IPv6 support, so
+ it would be nice to include support for it in ipmiutil.
+ Need access to a BMC that supports IPv6 for testing, or
+ someone to help test it whose BMC supports IPv6.
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.7.8, with contribution from Rajaganesh87
+
+Add an option to 'ipmiutil fru' that discovers every child MC FRU also,
+like the isensor.c code does for fchild.
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.7.5 (ifru -e)
+
+Pass event severities to syslog, instead of just writing them as 'info'.
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.7.5
+
+Add OEM code for ekanalyzer
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.7.0
+
+Add code for FRU multi-record area decoding and FRU PICMG records
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.7.0
+
+Add OEM code for Sun
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.7.0
+
+Add OEM code for Fujitsu
+ PARTIAL in ipmiutil-2.6.9 with iRMC S2 SEL decoding
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.7.0 with iRMC S2 LED routines
+
+Add SHA256 and Cipher Suite 17 support
+ Current max Cipher Suite ID is 14, but IPMI 2.0 Errata 4 and DCMI 1.1
+ add these.
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.6.9
+
+Add OEM code for fwum, hpm, and oem_kontron features.
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.6.9
+
+Add more ATCA/picmg functionality.
+ Currently have std IPMI functions, plus fru and sensor and blue LED
+ capability for ATCA/picmg bladed systems.
+ Need to add some additional picmg-specific functionality, like:
+ properties - get PICMG properties
+ addrinfo - get address information
+ activate - activate a FRU
+ deactivate - deactivate a FRU
+ policy get - get the FRU activation policy
+ policy set - set the FRU activation policy
+ portstate get - get port state
+ portstate set - set port state
+ led prop - get led properties
+ led cap - get led color capabilities
+ led state get - get led state
+ led state set - set led state
+ power get - get power level info
+ power set - set power level
+ and firmware firewall functions
+ COMPLETE: added ipicmg.c and ifirewall.c in ipmiutil-2.6.5
+
+Add older 1.5 SOL protocol capability
+ For ipmiutil sol with IPMI 1.5, the older (Intel-only) 1.5 SOL protocol
+ is implemented and will connect, but the 1.5 SOL data packets are not
+ right yet. This is in progress. Note that the standard IPMI 2.0 SOL
+ protocol is entirely separate and still works fine.
+ Lower priority right now. If you want to use this feature, email
+ ipmiutil-developers(at)lists.sourceforge.net
+ CANCELLED - Intel 1.5 SOL is too old to matter any more. It was
+ only supported on SE7501WV2 motherboards from <=2003.
+
+Fix the API interface to /dev/ipmi0 on FreeBSD
+ This FreeBSD ipmi driver is different than Linux.
+ We have support for ipmiutil driverless mode on FreeBSD.
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.5.2, support ipmi driver and driverless w FreeBSD 7.x
+
+Add a delimeted-output option for all utilities
+ Would make parsing the output in scripts easier.
+ 08/25/08 added ':' delimiters to lan/serial config output in 2.2.0
+ PARTIAL in ipmiutil-2.2.0 - added 'ipmiutil config'
+ DONE in ipmiutil-2.4.1 for sensor and lan canonical output with -c
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.5.0 added -c to bmchealth, fruconfig
+
+Add support for a DOS build
+ CANCELLED - use Linux boot media instead, DOS is not as good.
+
+Add detection for Windows SOL when Command Prompt window is >25 rows.
+ DONE with AnsiTerm.cpp in ipmiutil-2.5.0
+
+Build a bootable Linux CD with ipmiutil for use with other random OSs.
+ Note that with ipmiutil-1.7.5, any bootable Linux CD will do, since
+ the direct I/Os no longer require an IPMI driver.
+ We may still want to build and supply an example (like TRB or SLAX).
+ 2/06/07 Built an initial SLAX CD as http://ipmiutil.sf.net/ipmiutil.iso.
+ This ISO is too big to remain posted on sourceforge.net, however.
+ Need documentation on how to build an ISO to finish this.
+ 11/21/08 posted SLAX ISO as http://ipmiutil.sf.net/FILES/newgrab.iso
+ COMPLETE
+
+Add Solaris support
+ Needed because configuring IPMI LAN and PEF with ipmitool is too
+ complicated.
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.3.0 for Solaris 10 bmc driver
+
+Add output logging to ipmiutil sol
+ This is easy with stdio in Linux, but not possible in Windows without
+ adding a logging option in the code, since Windows uses the video
+ console buffer instead of stdio.
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.2.2
+
+Add support for Microsoft Windows IPMI driver
+ Currently only support Intel Windows imbdrv.sys driver.
+ Requires adding WMI infrastructure.
+ COMPLETED 09/12/08 in ipmiutil-2.2.1 for 32-bit Win2003R2
+
+Add support for remote soft reset via OpenIPMI driver
+ Currently 'ipmiutil reset -o -N' requires 'getevent -a' and the imb driver.
+ Requires adding async callback for OpenIPMI driver to getevent.c
+ COMPLETED 09/12/08 in ipmiutil-2.2.1
+
+Add a function to save/restore BMC IPMI settings
+ This would combine lan, serial, and fru parameters in a key-value-pair
+ file that could be restored automatically.
+ COMPLETED 08/25/08 in ipmiutil-2.2.0
+
+Eliminate duplication in binaries
+ Build only one Meta-command for ipmiutil, with static libs if possible.
+ Existing other commands would be sym-links or shortcuts, e.g.
+ showsel [args] => ipmiutil sel [args]
+ COMPLETED 03/31/08 in ipmiutil-2.1.0 for Linux
+
+Handle Windows command prompt terminal emulation for SOL
+ The Windows isolconsole.exe works, but the terminal emulation logic is
+ not finished. It works ok to Linux command-line and vi, but looks
+ bad for BIOS/POST. This is in progress. There are other (non-open)
+ tools available for Windows (e.g. Intel dpccli) in the interim.
+ The Linux isolconsole works fine, since the terminal emulation is
+ handled by the Linux termio.
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.0.0, no known issues
+
+Do an OS Agent for hwreset to do BMC LAN remote soft-shutdown.
+ Perhaps using an xinetd socket to not have a service always resident,
+ or sending a kill signal to init from the driver level would work.
+ i.e. kill(1,SIGINT); /*SIGINT==2*/
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.0.0 with hwreset & "getevent -a" for IMB driver.
+
+Do a configure option with/without lanplus support, since this adds so
+much size to the binary object code.
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-1.8.2
+
+Include IPMI v2.0 RMCP+ LAN protocol also.
+ (IPMI 2.0 commands were previously supported, however.)
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-1.8.0
+
+Add more boot parameters to hwreset, for things like:
+ . hwreset: Set which device to boot from (CD, Disk, LAN/PXE, etc.)
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-1.7.0
+ . Forcing the boot to continue (i.e. no POST pause) - BIOS setting
+ REJECTED - too platform specific for this project, see platform vendor
+ . Set which OS/Software version/target to be downloaded for PXE (?)
+ REJECTED - too platform specific for this project, see platform vendor
+
+Make a real-time sensor monitoring tool to monitor a specified SDR for
+sensor readings every second.
+ . partially complete with sensor -i option
+ . sensor 1.39 has -L option for looping
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-1.7.3 (sensor 1.39)
+
+Add encrypt/decrypt options to pefconfig & tmconfig, using RSA or DSA public
+keys, perhaps with the gnupg.org library.
+ There is some concern about increasing the size of the utilities for
+ encryption, when this functionality can be scripted instead.
+ POSTPONED - perhaps someone else would like to help?
+ COMPLETE - using -E to get password from IPMI_PASSWORD environment
+ variable works, and does not put the password in the
+ command line or script.
+ ADDED -Y option to allow user to enter password at prompt w ipmiutil-1.9.0
+
+Improve BMC LAN functionality and diagnosis with some custom IPMI LAN logic.
+ The built-in IPMI LAN also makes the Windows version able to use it.
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-1.7.0 with ipmilan.c
+
+pefconfig: Fix fSOL20 logic to work on supported platforms, currently
+ returns completion code 0x80.
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-1.6.5
+
+Update hpiutil source for 1.1.9 changes
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-1.6.3
+
+Add pre-built Windows *.exe files to the ipmiutil.sf.net home page.
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-1.6.3
+
+sensor: Add an option to display timestamp for this run. Write it on each SDR line if -w is also specified.
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-1.5.6
+
+fruconfig: Get FRU data from all FRU devices, not just baseboard.
+ COMPLETE in ipmiutil-1.5.6
+
+Add User settings, like tmconfig has, to pefconfig
+ - added more Get User Access messages to pefconfig v1.30 in ipmiutil 1.4.9
+ - added -u option with ipmiutil 1.5.3
+ COMPLETE
+