Is there any IPMI simulator?

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Deepak Battu picture Deepak Battu · May 28, 2015 · Viewed 9.5k times · Source

I need to test some ipmitool commands. I dont have a server with ILO/IDRAC installed. Is there a simulator which can mimic as the IPMI server?(or) Can I use any virtual box/Qemu/KVM virtual machines to implement the IPMI drivers and test them over LAN? Are there any documentation of such kind? Please suggest. Thanks.

Answer

Zaboj Campula picture Zaboj Campula · May 30, 2015

It is possible to do some IPMI test without real IPMI hardware. The OpenIPMI library provides a simple IPMI simulator that allows LAN access. Download OpenIPMI library and read the ./OpenIPMI-2.0.21/lanserv/README.vm.

It is not possible to emulate exactly a real BMC like iLO or DRAC. Nevertheless it is sufficient for the first round testing of software with IPMI support.

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