IPMI Library for Java

Verax IPMI is an asynchronous, highly scalable Java library implementing IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) protocol 2.0 over UDP in accordance with the v2.0, revision 1.0 standard. The IPMI interface has been adopted as a SNMP alternative for hardware management by many vendors.

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Features

• UDP session management: connect, disconnect, keep-alive, sliding window for messages and message sequence numbers
• Encoders and decoders for: event log, sensor values and hardware information (FRU - Field Replaceable Unit)
• Extensibility with additional, user-defined encoders
• Timeout and retry handling for UDP IPMI messages
• Support for unlimited concurrent sessions
• IPMP standard-required, encryption algorithms for authentication (RAKP-HMAC-SHA1), confidentiality (AES-CBC-128) and integrity (HMAC-SHA1-96). Additional, user-defined algorithms can be plugged in
• JVM Thread Management: incoming messages are handled in a separate JVM Thread for each connection
• Supported for LAN - RMCP+ interfaces
• Unlimited IPMI message throughput
• Unlimited number of maximum managed CPUs per IPMI instance

IMPI 1.5 limited support

The library supports encoders/decoders for IMPI version 1.5 messages, however session management is provided only for version 2.0.

Supported IPMI commands

The following IPMI commands are supported by the library (additional, user-defined commands can be plugged-in):

Supported IPMI commands

IPMI chassis commands

Chassis Control

Get Chassis Status

IPMI FRU (Field Replaceable Unit) commands

Get FRU inventory area info

Read FRU data

IPMI SDR (Sensor Data Record) commands

Get SDR repository info

Get SDR

Get sensor reading

Reserve SDR repository

IPMI SEL (System Event Log) commands

Get SEL info

Get SEL entry

Reserve SEL

IPMI session commands

Get channel cipher suites

Get channel authentication capabilities

Open session

RAKP1-4

Close session

Supported IPMI sensors

IPMI monitoring templates

Temperature

Voltage

Current

Fan

Physical Security (Chassis Intrusion)

Platform Security Violation Attempt

Processor

Power supply

Power unit

Cooling device

Memory

Disk Drive Bay

POST Memory Resize

System Firmware Progress

Event Logging Disabled

Watchdog 1

System Event

Critical Interrupt

Button / Switch

Module / Board

Microcontroller / Coprocessor

Add-in Card

Chassis

Chip set

Other FRU

Cable / Interconnect

Terminator

System Boot / Restart Initiated

Boot Error

OS Boot

OS Stop / Shutdown

Slot / Connector

System ACPI Power State

Watchdog 2

Platform Alert

Entity Presence

Monitor ASIC / IC

LAN

Management subsystem health

Battery

Session Audit

Version Change

FRU State

Implementation

• Efficient, fully asynchronous, stage machine based API
• Synchronous API support
• Native Java 1.6 implementation - no additional native libraries or drivers required
• JProfiler tested for memory leaks & performance

Due to its high performance the library is used as IPMI communication layer in the Verax NMS.

License

The software is provided "as is" without any warranty under the GPL v3 license. Please contact us for a commercial license.

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Item	Description	Version	Compatibility
Project .zip file Size:  1.9  MB Released on: 2013-05-16 HTTP DownloadFTP Download	An archive containing sources, binaries, examples and documentation.	1.0.13 Changelog	Java 1.6 or higher. Apache Maven 2.2.1 or higher (for build).

Questions or problems?

Please report problems, enhancement suggestions and other feedback via e-mail to support at veraxsystems.com.