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authorJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2015-11-06 01:42:41 +0100
committerJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2015-11-06 01:42:41 +0100
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
IPMIUTIL USER GUIDE
- VERSION 2.9.6
+ VERSION 2.9.7
An easy-to-use IPMI server management utility
@@ -5227,10 +5227,20 @@ exception of drivers:
or cached at http://ipmiutil.sf.net/kern/imbdrv130.zip
* The Microsoft IPMI driver (ipmidrv.sys), which comes with Windows 2003 R2
and later, is also supported.
-
It should be noted that the two IPMI drivers should not be installed at the
same time, since they will interfere with each other.
-So, for some systems or applications, you may need to uninstall the Microsoft
+
+Note that there are several outstanding bug reports against the Microsoft ipmidrv.sys driver which may affect its usage:
+ * ipmidrv.sys does not support systems with 4-byte register spacing
+ https://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/windowsserver/en-US/223e3a0d-3daa-4141-9c13-3169f766a7d5/win2008-ipmidrvsys-does-not-load-if-register-spacing-4
+ * ipmidrv.sys WBEM access memory leak
+ https://sourceforge.net/p/ipmiutil/support-requests/11/
+ https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsdesktop/en-US/ca4df181-7fd4-4912-83a0-5896b030e3ca/latest-version-of-microsoft-ipmi-driver-ipmidrvsys?forum=wdk
+ * ipmidrv.sys with Windows 2012 does not work on many IPMI systems
+ This version is more broken than the Win2008 version.
+If you are affected by any of these issues, you can download and install the imbdrv.sys as described below, but you must also disable the MS ipmidrv.sys.
+
+For some systems or applications, you may need to uninstall the Microsoft
IPMI driver, like this:
* start Control Panel/System app
* go to Hardware tab, start Device Manager
@@ -5240,6 +5250,12 @@ IPMI driver, like this:
* select Properties
* on driver tab, click "Uninstall"
* then reboot.
+If you are running Windows 2012, the Device Manager does not support this,
+so use these steps to disable the Microsoft IPMIDRV:
+ * Start a command prompt with 'Run as administrator'
+ * cd \windows\system32\drivers
+ * move ipmidrv.sys ipmidrv.old
+ * then reboot
How to install Intel IPMI driver from the cached copy at http://ipmiutil.sf.net/kern/imbdrv130.zip
Extract imbdrv130.zip to c:\temp or similar
@@ -5263,13 +5279,6 @@ make sure that the Microsoft VC++ Redistributable package is installed
See http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=200B2FD9-AE1A-4A14-984D-389C36F85647&displaylang=en
to download this if needed.
-Note that there are two outstanding bug reports against the Microsoft ipmidrv.sys driver which may affect its usage:
- * ipmidrv.sys does not support systems with 4-byte register spacing
- https://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/windowsserver/en-US/223e3a0d-3daa-4141-9c13-3169f766a7d5/win2008-ipmidrvsys-does-not-load-if-register-spacing-4
- * ipmidrv.sys WBEM access memory leak
- https://sourceforge.net/p/ipmiutil/support-requests/11/
- https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsdesktop/en-US/ca4df181-7fd4-4912-83a0-5896b030e3ca/latest-version-of-microsoft-ipmi-driver-ipmidrvsys?forum=wdk
-
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5.2 WINDOWS BUILD INSTRUCTIONS
@@ -5294,14 +5303,14 @@ A copy of these files is available from
http://ipmiutil.sf.net/FILES/ipmiutil-contrib.zip
The above zip contains all of the contributed source used.
Refer to getopt.c from one of these
- BSD getopt.c:
+ BSD getopt.c (used by default in ipmiutil.exe):
http://www.openmash.org/lxr/source/src/getopt.c?c=gsm
public domain getopt.c:
http://www.koders.com/c/fid034963469B932D9D87F91C86680EB08DB4DE9AA3.aspx
GNU LGPL getopt.c:
http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/ogg-tools/oggsplit/
Refer to openssl from this link (Apache-style license, not gpl)
- http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.7l.tar.gz.
+ http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.8x.tar.gz (used by default)
5.2.3 Copy initial contrib files into ipmiutil
Below are sample directories where ipmiutil*.tar.gz was unpacked,
@@ -5356,8 +5365,9 @@ Serial-Over-LAN requires.
5.3 WINDOWS COMMAND USAGE
----------------------------------
-Because of the differences in Linux getopt and the getopt used in
-the Windows build, the order of parameters is more important in Windows.
+Because of the differences in Linux getopt and the BSD getopt.c used by
+default in the Windows build, the order of parameters is more important
+in Windows.
For example in Linux, the following command usages work, but not in Windows:
# ipmiutil cmd 00 20 18 01 -N 192.168.1.154