RHBA-2008:0913 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated freeipmi packages that resolve a display issue in bmc-info are now
available.

Description

The FreeIPMI project provides "Remote-Console" (out-of-band) and "System
Management Software" (in-band) based on the Intelligent Platform Management
Interface specification.

These updated freeipmi packages fix a bug in which the "bmc-info" command
would display certain values incorrectly. Specifically, the "bmc-info" tool
displayed the values for "Device ID" in hexadecimal instead of decimal, and
the values for "Firmware Rev" in decimal instead of hexadecimal.

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

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 437460 - `bmc-info` shows different information than `ipmitool bmc info` does

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)