IPMI-LOCATE(8)

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version 1.6.20 · 14 versions
, in arch rolling, centos-stream 10, centos-stream 9

💅 IPMI-LOCATE(8) — the IPMI probing utility, bestie edition

okay so real talk, this is a page from the System Commands manual, and it's all about ipmi-locate. let me tell you everything 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ipmi-locate — the IPMI probing utility. that's it, that's the whole vibe. she probes. she tells you stuff. iconic. 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ipmi-locate [OPTION...]

literally that simple, no cap.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so ipmi-locate probes and displays information about a BMC device — think stuff like device addresses, or which IPMI version is supported. very much giving detective energy. 🔍

sometimes people use ipmi-locate to figure out "is IPMI even on my system??" — and like, fair. but users are cautioned 🙈 — the failure to discover IPMI via ipmi-locate is not sufficient to disprove that IPMI exists on your system. nope. not enough. your system may simply not publish that info, or it may expect clients to communicate at default locations instead. so if she says nothing, that doesn't mean nothing's there. 💀

the way this works is that the system's SMBIOS/DMI and ACPI tables get read directly — so yeah, ipmi-locate must be run as root. no root, no reading. periodt. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --defaults — after the probe results, this also displays the default KCS, SMIC, and SSIF device locations from the IPMI specification. ⚠️ important to know: these are compiled-in values, not values discovered on the system. so don't get it twisted, they're the spec defaults, not your actual machine's tea. ☕
  • -?, --help — outputs a help list and exits. classic. 🤝
  • --usage — outputs a usage message and exits. short and sweet. ✨
  • -V, --version — outputs the program version and exits. let her introduce herself. 💅

🔥 REPORTING BUGS 🔥

found a bug? bestie, please tell someone 💖 report bugs to <freeipmi-users@gnu.org> or <freeipmi-devel@gnu.org>. those are the two emails, both of them, use whichever.

Copyright © 2005-2015 FreeIPMI Core Team

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

(yes that's the whole license blurb, i'm not paraphrasing legal text, i would never 😭)

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go click around, it's giving documentation excellence 🧚

and that's the page!! mwah 💜 this was IPMI Locate version 1.6.20, dated 2026-10-05 — so if you're reading this way later, yeah, she's been around a while. slay. 🍓

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