IPMI service status returns "/dev/ipmi0 does not exist" in RHEL 6

Issue

• While checking the status of the service ipmi, it displays that /dev/ipmi0 does not exist.

  #service ipmi status
  ipmi_msghandler module loaded.
  ipmi_si module loaded.
  ipmi_devintf module loaded.
  /dev/ipmi0 does not exist.