[chef] Re: IPMI / Ohai

["Brian J. Murrell" < >]

On 13-09-23 10:36 AM, Graham Christensen wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I maintain a deployment of SuperMicro servers, and Dell servers, as well as a 
> compliment of cloud machines. What I want to accomplish is as follows:
>
> An ohai plugin to determine if IPMI is available. I can do this with 
> dmidecode, which takes about 30 seconds:

It only takes less than a second on my hardware:

# time dmidecode --type 38
# dmidecode 2.11
# SMBIOS entry point at 0x000f0440
SMBIOS 2.6 present.

Handle 0x00AD, DMI type 38, 16 bytes
IPMI Device Information
        Interface Type: KCS (Keyboard Control Style)
        Specification Version: 2.0
        I2C Slave Address: 0x10
        NV Storage Device: Not Present
        Base Address: 0x0000000000000CA2 (I/O)


real    0m0.002s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.001s

Cheers,
b.