[tech] Assorted remote management changes

[Bob Adamson]

Hi All,

I spent a little time tinkering with the IPMI on motsugo, and managed to 
get the interface and remote console working. I also set up the alert 
emails to go to hostmaster@ and tested it. A lot more of the temperature 
and voltage sensors work now, but I can't be bothered fixing up the stats 
page atm. Yay, now we can actually do something other than reboot remotely 
when things go pear shaped. That's only relevant to Wheel really but I 
figured some other people might be interested.

The process to get the IPMI working is fairly simple in Debian; install 
openipmi, lm-sensors, ipmitool and if you want, freeipmi-tools. You have 
to manually load the ipmi_devintf kernel module, and then /dev/ipmi0 
should appear. Then all the ipmi tools/interfaces should work.

Hopefully the same process will apply for murasoi, the replacement for 
madako.

Bob Adamson
UCC President

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