How To Install freeipmi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. freeipmi.x86_64 is IPMI remote console and system management software

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `freeipmi.x86_64`

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.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freeipmi.x86_64.

Install freeipmi.x86_64 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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freeipmi.x86_64

How To Uninstall freeipmi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the freeipmi.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove freeipmi.x86_64

freeipmi.x86_64 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/systemd/system/os-shutdown-event.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/os-startup-event.service
/usr/lib64/libfreeipmi.so.17
/usr/lib64/libfreeipmi.so.17.1.4
/usr/lib64/libipmiconsole.so.2
/usr/lib64/libipmiconsole.so.2.3.4
/usr/lib64/libipmidetect.so.0
/usr/lib64/libipmidetect.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/libipmimonitoring.so.6
/usr/lib64/libipmimonitoring.so.6.0.6
/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.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.