Users Guide

Using the BMC Management Utility 29
Uninstalling on Systems Running Supported Red Hat Linux Enterprise Operating Systems
To uninstall the BMC Management Utility, perform the following steps:
1 Log in as root .
2 Enter the following command to remove all the installed packages.
rpm -e osabmcutil
If the BMC Management Utility has been uninstalled, you will receive a success message.
IPMI Shell
IPMI Shell is a CLI console application and has no graphical user interface. Its commands and
options are specified using command line arguments only.
IPMI Shell supports out-of-band (OOB) access (over a LAN or through the serial port) to a single
system at a time, however, multiple IPMI Shell sessions can run simultaneously on the same
managed system. See Figure 3-2.
IPMI Shell allows a user with user-level BMC user privileges to:
• Display the current power status.
• Display the 16-byte system GUID of the managed system.
• Display information from the system’s field replaceable unit (FRU).
• Display the BMC firmware information.
• Display summary information about the event log.
• Display the logged events.
In addition to the operations that can be performed by a user with user-level BMC user privileges,
IPMI Shell allows a user with operator-level and administrator-level BMC user privileges to:
• Power on, reset, or cycle a managed system.
• Simulate a hard power off on a managed system (forcing the system to turn off without
shutting down the operating system).
• Delete the system event log (SEL).
• Turn on/off the blinking system identification LED.
To facilitate command scripting, upon successful execution, IPMI Shell terminates with an exit
code of zero, and will output the execution results in a parsable format. If an error is encountered,
the program exits with a non-zero error code and outputs the error in a parsable format. See "BMC
Management Utility Error Codes" for a complete list of possible BMC Management Utility error
codes.