Owner's Manual

20 Configuring Your Network
Enabling IPMI
Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) provides a set of common
interfaces to the hardware and firmware that system administrators can use
to monitor system health and manage the system. With Oracle 11g R2,
Oracle Clusterware can integrate IPMI to provide failure isolation support
and to ensure cluster integrity.
Prerequisites for Enabling IPMI
Each cluster node requires a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC),
running a firmware compatible with IPMI version 1.5 or later and configured
for remote control using LAN.
NOTE: It is recommended that you use a dedicated management network
(DRAC port) for IPMI.
The Linux rpm required for ipmitool is OpenIPMI-tools-2.0.6-11.el5.x86_64.rpm .
Configuring the Open IPMI Driver
1 Log in as root .
2 To enable the IPMI service, type:
Chkconfig ipmi on
3 To start the IPMI service, type: Service ipmi start
4
Run the command /sbin/lsmod|grep ipmi to confirm that the IPMI
modules are loaded. For example:
# /sbin/lsmod | grep ipmi
ipmi_devintf 44753 2
ipmi_si 77453 1
ipmi_msghandler 72985 2
ipmi_devintf,ipmi_si