Issued:
2011-07-31
Updated:
2011-07-31

RHBA-2011:1107 - OpenIPMI bug fix update

Synopsis

OpenIPMI bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated OpenIPMI packages that resolve an issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The OpenIPMI packages provide command line tools and utilities to access platform information using IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface), and thus allowing system administrators to manage systems and perform system health monitoring.

These updated OpenIPMI packages fix the following bug:

  • When IPMI-enabled devices reported SDR (sensor data record) records under a different owner than the BMC (Baseboard Management Controller), the IPMItool utility tried to retrieve these SDR records from the IPMI bus instead of the BMC bus. Due to timeout setting for the SDR read attempt, serious performance issues occurred and no sensor data was shown. This issue has been fixed and IPMItool now correctly reads these SDR records from the BMC and shows the correct sensor data on these platforms. (BZ#722462)

All users of OpenIPMI are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • OpenIPMI-devel-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.ppc.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-libs-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-devel-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.i386.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-devel-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-gui-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.ia64.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-tools-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.ia64.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-libs-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.ppc.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-python-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-perl-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.ppc.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-libs-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.s390.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-python-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.i386.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-perl-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.i386.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-tools-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.i386.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-perl-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.ia64.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.src.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-gui-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.ppc.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-gui-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.i386.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-python-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.ppc.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-devel-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.ppc64.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-gui-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-devel-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-perl-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.ppc.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-tools-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.ppc.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-libs-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-devel-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.s390.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-perl-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-tools-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-libs-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.i386.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-python-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.ia64.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.i386.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-libs-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.ppc64.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.ia64.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-python-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-tools-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.s390x.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-devel-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.ia64.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-libs-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.ia64.rpm
  • OpenIPMI-gui-2.0.16-11.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information