User's Manual

Using the BMC Management Utility 55
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 commands 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 GUI. 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.