libipmiconsole(3)

libipmiconsole3

Ipmi sol library

Usage

#include <ipmiconsole.h>

int ipmiconsole_engine_init(unsigned int thread_count, unsigned int debug_flags);

int ipmiconsole_engine_submit(ipmiconsole_ctx_t c, Ipmiconsole_callback callback, void *callback_arg);

int ipmiconsole_engine_submit_block(ipmiconsole_ctx_t c);

void ipmiconsole_engine_teardown(int cleanup_sol_sessions);

ipmiconsole_ctx_t ipmiconsole_ctx_create(const char *hostname, struct ipmiconsole_ipmi_config *ipmi_config, struct ipmiconsole_protocol_config *protocol_config, struct ipmiconsole_engine_config *engine_config);

int ipmiconsole_ctx_errnum(ipmiconsole_ctx_t c);

char *ipmiconsole_ctx_strerror(int errnum);

ipmiconsole_ctx_status_t ipmiconsole_ctx_status(ipmiconsole_ctx_t c);

int ipmiconsole_ctx_fd(ipmiconsole_ctx_t c);

int ipmiconsole_ctx_generate_break(ipmiconsole_ctx_t c);

void ipmiconsole_ctx_destroy(ipmiconsole_ctx_t c);

Overview

Libipmiconsole implements a high level serial-over-lan (SOL) API for remote console access. It can be used to establish and manage multiple IPMI 2.0 SOL sessions. The goal of this library is to abstract away all of the underlying IPMI/SOL details away from the user into a relatively simple file descriptor interface. Alternate default configuration value can be set for libipmiconsole via the libipmiconsole.conf file. See libipmiconsole.conf(5) for more information.

Files

/usr/include/ipmiconsole.h /etc/freeipmi//libipmiconsole.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

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.