What is OpenIPMI and how to use it?

Question

I was found in Ubuntu repo package with name openipmi, what is it and how to use this package? It's IPMI Emulator or what? and how to connect to OpenIPMI?

Answer 1

According to the OpenIMPI project webpage (http://openipmi.sourceforge.net/), OpenIMPI is not an emulator but is

... an effort to create a full-function IPMI system to allow full access to all IPMI information on a server and to abstract it to a level that will make it easy to use.

You can connect to OpenIMPI in a number of ways, including using the ipmicmd program which lets you inject and receive messages.