How To Install freeipmi.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. freeipmi.i686 is IPMI remote console and system management software

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `freeipmi.i686`

The FreeIPMI project provides “Remote-Console” (out-of-band) and “System Management Software” (in-band) based on Intelligent Platform Management Interface specification.

We can use yum to install freeipmi.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freeipmi.i686.

Install freeipmi.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install freeipmi.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freeipmi.i686

How To Uninstall freeipmi.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the freeipmi.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove freeipmi.i686

freeipmi.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/freeipmi
/etc/freeipmi/freeipmi.conf
/etc/freeipmi/freeipmi_interpret_sel.conf
/etc/freeipmi/freeipmi_interpret_sensor.conf
/etc/freeipmi/ipmidetect.conf
/etc/freeipmi/libipmiconsole.conf
/usr/lib/libfreeipmi.so.17
/usr/lib/libfreeipmi.so.17.1.4
/usr/lib/libipmiconsole.so.2
/usr/lib/libipmiconsole.so.2.3.4
/usr/lib/libipmidetect.so.0
/usr/lib/libipmidetect.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libipmimonitoring.so.6
/usr/lib/libipmimonitoring.so.6.0.6
/usr/lib/systemd/system/os-shutdown-event.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/os-startup-event.service
/usr/sbin/bmc-config
/usr/sbin/bmc-device
/usr/sbin/bmc-info
/usr/sbin/ipmi-chassis
/usr/sbin/ipmi-chassis-config
/usr/sbin/ipmi-config
/usr/sbin/ipmi-console
/usr/sbin/ipmi-dcmi
/usr/sbin/ipmi-detect
/usr/sbin/ipmi-fru
/usr/sbin/ipmi-locate
/usr/sbin/ipmi-oem
/usr/sbin/ipmi-pef-config
/usr/sbin/ipmi-pet
/usr/sbin/ipmi-ping
/usr/sbin/ipmi-power
/usr/sbin/ipmi-raw
/usr/sbin/ipmi-sel
/usr/sbin/ipmi-sensors
/usr/sbin/ipmi-sensors-config
/usr/sbin/ipmiconsole
/usr/sbin/ipmidetect
/usr/sbin/ipmimonitoring
/usr/sbin/ipmiping
/usr/sbin/ipmipower
/usr/sbin/pef-config
/usr/sbin/rmcp-ping
/usr/sbin/rmcpping
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/COPYING.ZRESEARCH
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/COPYING.ipmi-dcmi
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/COPYING.ipmi-fru
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/COPYING.ipmiconsole
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/COPYING.ipmidetect
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/COPYING.ipmimonitoring
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/COPYING.ipmiping
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/COPYING.ipmipower
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/COPYING.pstdout
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/COPYING.sunbmc
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/ChangeLog.0
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/DISCLAIMER.ipmi-dcmi
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/DISCLAIMER.ipmi-fru
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/DISCLAIMER.ipmi-fru.UC
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/DISCLAIMER.ipmiconsole
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/DISCLAIMER.ipmiconsole.UC
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/DISCLAIMER.ipmidetect
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/DISCLAIMER.ipmidetect.UC
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/DISCLAIMER.ipmimonitoring
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/DISCLAIMER.ipmimonitoring.UC
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/DISCLAIMER.ipmiping
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/DISCLAIMER.ipmiping.UC
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/DISCLAIMER.ipmipower
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/DISCLAIMER.ipmipower.UC
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/DISCLAIMER.pstdout
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/DISCLAIMER.pstdout.UC
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/README
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/README.argp
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/README.build
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/README.openipmi
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/TODO
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/contrib
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/contrib/ganglia
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/contrib/ganglia/README
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/contrib/ganglia/ganglia_ipmi_sensors.pl
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/contrib/nagios
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/contrib/nagios/README
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/contrib/nagios/nagios_ipmi_sensors.pl
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/contrib/pet
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/contrib/pet/README
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/contrib/pet/check_rmcpping
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/contrib/pet/ipminodes.cfg
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/contrib/pet/petalert.pl
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/freeipmi-bugs-issues-and-workarounds.txt
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/freeipmi-coding.txt
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/freeipmi-design.txt
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/freeipmi-hostrange.txt
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/freeipmi-libraries.txt
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/freeipmi-oem-documentation-requirements.txt
/usr/share/doc/freeipmi/freeipmi-testing.txt
/usr/share/info/freeipmi-faq.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/bmc-config.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/freeipmi.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/freeipmi_interpret_sel.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/freeipmi_interpret_sensor.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/ipmi-config.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/ipmi_monitoring_sensors.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/ipmiconsole.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/ipmidetect.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/ipmimonitoring.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/ipmimonitoring_sensors.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/ipmipower.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/libipmiconsole.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/libipmimonitoring.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/freeipmi.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/bmc-config.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/bmc-device.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/bmc-info.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmi-chassis-config.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmi-chassis.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmi-config.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmi-console.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmi-dcmi.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmi-detect.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmi-fru.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmi-locate.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmi-oem.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmi-pef-config.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmi-pet.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmi-ping.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmi-power.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmi-raw.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmi-sel.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmi-sensors-config.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmi-sensors.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmiconsole.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmidetect.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmimonitoring.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmiping.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ipmipower.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/pef-config.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rmcp-ping.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rmcpping.8.gz
/var/cache/ipmimonitoringsdrcache
/var/lib/freeipmi
/var/lib/freeipmi/ipckey

References

freeipmi.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.