Sophie: ipmiutil-2.6.3-1mdv2010.1 x86

ipmiutil-2.6.3-1mdv2010.1.x86_64.rpm

IPMIUTIL PROJECT TODO LIST:

Add more ATCA/picmg functionality.
Currently have std IPMI functions, plus fru and sensor and blue LED
capability for ATCA/picmg bladed systems.
Need to add some additional picmg-specific functionality, like:
properties - get PICMG properties
addrinfo - get address information
activate - activate a FRU
deactivate - deactivate a FRU
policy get - get the FRU activation policy
policy set - set the FRU activation policy
portstate get - get port state
portstate set - set port state
led prop - get led properties
led cap - get led color capabilities
led state get - get led state
led state set - set led state
power get - get power level info
power set - set power level
and firmware firewall functions

Add a function to send ctl-alt-del through SOL console
Although this is seldom used in a serial console environment, it
could be useful. To do this, the one-character escape sequence
would need to be changed to a 2 character escape sequence.
PARTIAL - ipmiutil-2.5.0 includes the 2-character escape sequence
and a send_break function.

Add support for a MAC OSX client
Need a system with OSX to build and test this.

Remove assert() calls from lanplus code
Need to improve error handling and remove all assert() calls from
the lib/lanplus/ code: lanplus.c lanplus_crypt.c lanplus_crypt_impl.c
PARTIAL in ipmiutil-2.4.0, removed 2 asserts from lanplus.c

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IPMIUTIL COMPLETED TODO TASKS:

Add older 1.5 SOL protocol capability
For ipmiutil sol with IPMI 1.5, the older (Intel-only) 1.5 SOL protocol
is implemented and will connect, but the 1.5 SOL data packets are not
right yet. This is in progress. Note that the standard IPMI 2.0 SOL
protocol is entirely separate and still works fine.
Lower priority right now. If you want to use this feature, email
ipmiutil-developers(at)lists.sourceforge.net
CANCELLED - Intel 1.5 SOL is too old to matter any more. It was
only supported on SE7501WV2 motherboards from <=2003.

Fix the API interface to /dev/ipmi0 on FreeBSD
This FreeBSD ipmi driver is different than Linux.
We have support for ipmiutil driverless mode on FreeBSD.
COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.5.2, support ipmi driver and driverless w FreeBSD 7.x

Add a delimeted-output option for all utilities
Would make parsing the output in scripts easier.
08/25/08 added ':' delimiters to lan/serial config output in 2.2.0
PARTIAL in ipmiutil-2.2.0 - added 'ipmiutil config'
DONE in ipmiutil-2.4.1 for sensor and lan canonical output with -c
COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.5.0 added -c to bmchealth, fruconfig

Add support for a DOS build
CANCELLED - use Linux boot media instead, DOS is not as good.

Add detection for Windows SOL when Command Prompt window is >25 rows.
DONE with AnsiTerm.cpp in ipmiutil-2.5.0

Build a bootable Linux CD with ipmiutil for use with other random OSs.
Note that with ipmiutil-1.7.5, any bootable Linux CD will do, since
the direct I/Os no longer require an IPMI driver.
We may still want to build and supply an example (like TRB or SLAX).
2/06/07 Built an initial SLAX CD as http://ipmiutil.sf.net/ipmiutil.iso.
This ISO is too big to remain posted on sourceforge.net, however.
Need documentation on how to build an ISO to finish this.
11/21/08 posted SLAX ISO as http://ipmiutil.sf.net/FILES/newgrab.iso
COMPLETE

Add Solaris support
Needed because configuring IPMI LAN and PEF with ipmitool is too
complicated.
COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.3.0 for Solaris 10 bmc driver

Add output logging to ipmiutil sol
This is easy with stdio in Linux, but not possible in Windows without
adding a logging option in the code, since Windows uses the video
console buffer instead of stdio.
COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.2.2

Add support for Microsoft Windows IPMI driver
Currently only support Intel Windows imbdrv.sys driver.
Requires adding WMI infrastructure.
COMPLETED 09/12/08 in ipmiutil-2.2.1 for 32-bit Win2003R2

Add support for remote soft reset via OpenIPMI driver
Currently 'ipmiutil reset -o -N' requires 'getevent -a' and the imb driver.
Requires adding async callback for OpenIPMI driver to getevent.c
COMPLETED 09/12/08 in ipmiutil-2.2.1

Add a function to save/restore BMC IPMI settings
This would combine lan, serial, and fru parameters in a key-value-pair
file that could be restored automatically.
COMPLETED 08/25/08 in ipmiutil-2.2.0

Eliminate duplication in binaries
Build only one Meta-command for ipmiutil, with static libs if possible.
Existing other commands would be sym-links or shortcuts, e.g.
showsel [args] => ipmiutil sel [args]
COMPLETED 03/31/08 in ipmiutil-2.1.0 for Linux

Handle Windows command prompt terminal emulation for SOL
The Windows isolconsole.exe works, but the terminal emulation logic is
not finished. It works ok to Linux command-line and vi, but looks
bad for BIOS/POST. This is in progress. There are other (non-open)
tools available for Windows (e.g. Intel dpccli) in the interim.
The Linux isolconsole works fine, since the terminal emulation is
handled by the Linux termio.
COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.0.0, no known issues

Do an OS Agent for hwreset to do BMC LAN remote soft-shutdown.
Perhaps using an xinetd socket to not have a service always resident,
or sending a kill signal to init from the driver level would work.
i.e. kill(1,SIGINT); /*SIGINT==2*/
COMPLETE in ipmiutil-2.0.0 with hwreset & "getevent -a" for IMB driver.

Do a configure option with/without lanplus support, since this adds so
much size to the binary object code.
COMPLETE in ipmiutil-1.8.2

Include IPMI v2.0 RMCP+ LAN protocol also.
(IPMI 2.0 commands were previously supported, however.)
COMPLETE in ipmiutil-1.8.0

Add more boot parameters to hwreset, for things like:
. hwreset: Set which device to boot from (CD, Disk, LAN/PXE, etc.)
COMPLETE in ipmiutil-1.7.0
. Forcing the boot to continue (i.e. no POST pause) - BIOS setting
REJECTED - too platform specific for this project, see platform vendor
. Set which OS/Software version/target to be downloaded for PXE (?)
REJECTED - too platform specific for this project, see platform vendor

Make a real-time sensor monitoring tool to monitor a specified SDR for
sensor readings every second.
. partially complete with sensor -i option
. sensor 1.39 has -L option for looping
COMPLETE in ipmiutil-1.7.3 (sensor 1.39)

Add encrypt/decrypt options to pefconfig & tmconfig, using RSA or DSA public
keys, perhaps with the gnupg.org library.
There is some concern about increasing the size of the utilities for
encryption, when this functionality can be scripted instead.
POSTPONED - perhaps someone else would like to help?
COMPLETE - using -E to get password from IPMI_PASSWORD environment
variable works, and does not put the password in the
command line or script.
ADDED -Y option to allow user to enter password at prompt w ipmiutil-1.9.0

Improve BMC LAN functionality and diagnosis with some custom IPMI LAN logic.
The built-in IPMI LAN also makes the Windows version able to use it.
COMPLETE in ipmiutil-1.7.0 with ipmilan.c

pefconfig: Fix fSOL20 logic to work on supported platforms, currently
returns completion code 0x80.
COMPLETE in ipmiutil-1.6.5

Update hpiutil source for 1.1.9 changes
COMPLETE in ipmiutil-1.6.3

Add pre-built Windows *.exe files to the ipmiutil.sf.net home page.
COMPLETE in ipmiutil-1.6.3

sensor: Add an option to display timestamp for this run. Write it on each SDR line if -w is also specified.
COMPLETE in ipmiutil-1.5.6

fruconfig: Get FRU data from all FRU devices, not just baseboard.
COMPLETE in ipmiutil-1.5.6

Add User settings, like tmconfig has, to pefconfig
- added more Get User Access messages to pefconfig v1.30 in ipmiutil 1.4.9
- added -u option with ipmiutil 1.5.3
COMPLETE