Xenserver & ipmitool

I found that to enable access BMC information locally from Xenserver you need to load following modules:

•  modprobe ipmi_msghandler
•  modprobe ipmi_devintf
•  modprobe ipmi_si

 and latter as normal:
  ipmitool -I open channel info


Tested on Dell R310 without Drac module.



Another thing worth to note  about Dell and it's BMC — it is not enable by default and you need to press Ctrl+E in the right moment and turn it on. 

UPDATE

Dell support was wrong I can turn on access to BMC over LAN without rebooting box:

• ipmitool -I open lan set 1 access on
• ipmitool -I open lan set 1 user
• ipmitool -I open lan set 1 ipsrc dhcp

I'm not sure if I needed all three command. I'll check another day.

IPMITOOL man:  http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net/manpage.html