How to use libipmitool library of ipmiTool?

Question

As given in the below link http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/docs/ipmisw-compare.htm That there is a library API for IpmiTool called libipmitool. But I am not able to find any document/link/ or any user/programmer guide for IpmiTool's lib API. I can only find lib API for openIPMI and FreeIPMI. Could you please help in getting information on IpmiTool lib API ?

Thanks S sarath

Answer 1

I don't think that such a library exist as it doesn't appear in any search results.

In any case, if your main purpose is to monitor the SDR repository I highly recommend on using ipmimonitoring or libipmimonitoring because it interpret sensor readings rather than just report them. The tool will output if sensors are in NOMINAL, WARNING, or CRITICAL states.

Answer 2

I face a similar problem like sarath. After some research I was able to use OpenIPMI and its library. After the installation of OpenIPMI I was able to include the OpenIPMI Libs to my Sourcecode.

Here you find a manual to OpenIPMI. Chapter 2.3 give an overlook and a small description of the header files one can include. In Chapter 2.4 and 2.5 you find some sample source code to start with.

Additonal example sourcecode can be found here.

I will give it a try for my work with IPMI stuff.