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ipmiutil

ipmiutil seems to work OK on hp ia64 machines. You can list sensors, etc.

One limitation at the moment is that it does not correctly decode all sensor values; they're all assowed to be be "threshold" sensors. So sensors which are listed as "warn-lo" may actually be showing some other state entirely.

0000 SDR IPMB 12 15 dev: 20 00 07 01 Zircon BMC
0020 SDR Comp 02 29 20 sensnum 01 Chassis Intrus   = 00 c0 00 00 OK  
0050 SDR Comp 02 27 20 sensnum 02 Chassis Open     = 00 c0 01 00 Warn-lo
0080 SDR Comp 02 23 20 sensnum 03 Security         = 00 00 00 00 OK  
00b0 SDR Comp 02 27 20 sensnum 04 Power Button     = 00 c0 00 00 OK  
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