How to run IPMI tool from the openBMC romulus image. I was successful in running the Hello World program as per the tutorials. I want to run IPMI tool command from the romulus to the BMC of another server. Is there is any method of doing this? As ipmitool command is not included. Is there any way of including it in the romulus Image.
ipmitool is really meant to be used outside of the BMC to control it. So in most use cases you install the ipmitool package on your computer (sudo apt install ipmitool), and then use it to talk to the server.
i.e.:
ipmitool -I lanplus -U root -H <server> -P <password> chassis power status
If you're using QEMU, then I believe you need to hostfwd port 623 for this to work. I personally have not gotten ipmitool to talk to a QEMU session before though.
If you really want ipmitool in your BMC image, then you could add it as a RDEPENDS to the packagegroup file similar to what facebook does in https://github.com/openbmc/meta-facebook/blob/master/meta-tiogapass/recipes-fbtp/packagegroups/packagegroup-fb-apps.bb