Users Guide

Using the BMC Management Utility 37
Uninstalling on Systems Running Supported Linux Enterprise Operating Systems
To uninstall the BMC Management Utility, perform the following steps:
1
Log in as root .
2 Enter either of the following command to remove all the installed packages from SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
rpm -e osabmcutil9g-SUSE*
rpm -e osabmcutil9g-RHEL*
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 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 logged events.
• Display current status of platform sensors
• Enable or disable SOL.
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 power 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).
• Clear the system event log (SEL).
• Turn the blinking system identification LED on or off.