openhpi(7)

NAME
openhpi - an implementation of the SA Forum's Hardware Platform Interface

DESCRIPTION
OpenHPI is an implementation of the SA Forum's Hardware Platform Interface, which provides a standard C library interface to manage, monitor, and control hardware (both local and remote).

OpenHPI 2.x implements the HPI B.01.01 specification.

The OpenHPI client library (libopenhpi) provides all the connection functionality needed by the client application to connect to the OpenHPI daemon running on the local or remote server.

ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES
Some of OpenHPI's functioning can be changed by setting environment variables. This documents all client environmental settings.

OPENHPI_DAEMON_HOST=URL
    URL for the host running the daemon. This can be "localhost" (default) if the daemon is running on the local host or an ip address.

OPENHPI_DAEMON_PORT=PORT_NUMBER
    The port number the host is listening on for clent connections. Default port is 4743.

HARDWARE SUPPORT
OpenHPI provides a number of plugins that talk to different hardware types. The following is a list of tested plugins in OpenHPI 2.x.

ipmi
    An IPMI plugin that can talk locally (via smi interface and OpenIPMI device driver) or remotely (via IPMI over LAN). It supports IPMI 1.5 for standard rackmount servers, and some of IPMI 2.0 for support of ATCA chassis.

    IPMI plugin depends on libOpenIPMI version 1.4.x.

ipmidirect
    An IPMI plugin designed specifically for ATCA chassis. It implements IPMI commands directly in the plugin.

snmp_bc
    An SNMP based plugin that can communicate with IBM BladeCenter, as well as IBM xSeries servers with RSA 1 adapters.

    SNMP_BC plugin depends on net-snmp > 5.0.7.

sysfs
    Current status??

watchdog
    Current status??

OTHER DOCUMENTATION
The definitive guide to HPI is the SA Forum specification at http://saforum.org.

More info on OpenHPI can be found at our webpage (http://openhpi.org).

SEE ALSO
The following man pages may also be of interest

openhpid
    The openhpi daemon, providing OpenHPI data as a system service.

AUTHORS
Authors of this man page:

 Sean Dague (http://dague.net/sean)
 Renier Morales (renier@openhpi.org)