ipmidetectd(8)

ipmidetectd8

Ipmi node detection monitoring daemon

Usage

ipmidetectd [OPTION ...]

Overview

The ipmidetectd daemon regularly sends out IPMI pings to determine if nodes have functioning IPMI interfaces or not. It is primarily used to determine those nodes in the cluster that are not functioning properly, allowing IPMI commands to be executed across the cluster faster by skipping those nodes that would automatically timeout.

The ipmidetectd daemon must be configured using the ipmidetectd configuration file. Until hosts to be pinged are configured, ipmidetectd will not function properly.

See the ipmidetectd.conf(5) manpage for additional information.

Options

-c FILE, --config-file

Specify alternate configuration file

-d, --debug

Turn on debugging and run daemon in foreground

-V, --version

Output version

Errors

Errors are logged to syslog.

Files

/etc/freeipmi//ipmidetectd.conf

Releases

9 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 8 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7
  3. 8
  4. 9
  5. 10
  6. 11
  7. 12
  8. 13
  9. Arch

--config-file since Debian 8 (Jessie); --debug since Debian 8 (Jessie); -V since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -c since Debian 8 (Jessie); -d since Debian 8 (Jessie).

--help until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -h until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -v until Debian 11 (Bullseye).

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to <[email protected]> or <[email protected]>.

From freeipmi 1.6.20-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.