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26.Dd September 8, 2008
27.Dt IPMI 4
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm ipmi
31.Nd Intelligent Platform Management Interface driver
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.Cd "ipmi0 at mainbus?"
34.Sh DESCRIPTION
35The
36.Nm
37device driver supports motherboards implementing the
38Intelligent Platform Management Interface version 1.5 or 2.0,
39and exports sensors and the watchdog through the
40.Xr envsys 4
41interface.
42.Sh EVENTS
43The
44.Nm
45driver is able to send events to
46.Xr powerd 8
47when a sensor's state has changed.
48Intrusion sensors will send a
49.Em critical
50event when state is not ok.
51Power Supply sensors will send a
52.Em critical
53event when the Power Supply unit is not installed and
54.Em warning-over
55when the Power Supply unit is installed but not powered on.
56Fan, temperature and voltage sensors will send
57.Em critical-over
58or
59.Em critical-under
60when the value is very critical, or
61.Em warning-over
62or
63.Em warning-under
64if it's in a warning alert.
65.Sh SEE ALSO
66.Xr envsys 4 ,
67.Xr envstat 8 ,
68.Xr powerd 8 ,
69.Xr wdogctl 8
70.Sh HISTORY
71The
72.Nm
73driver first appeared in
74.Ox 3.9
75and was then ported to
76.Nx 4.0 .
77.Sh AUTHORS
78.An -nosplit
79The
80.Nm
81driver was originally written by
82.An Jordan Hargrave
83and was ported to
84.Nx
85by
86.An Manuel Bouyer
87.Aq bouyer@NetBSD.org .
88