ipmidetectd(8)

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💅 ipmidetectd(8) — bestie's guide to the IPMI node detection daemon ✨

okay so you're reading the ipmidetectd(8) page, which means you're officially in your systems-girlie era 🎀 this one's a daemon, it's lowkey iconic, and it just wants to know which of your nodes are... doing fine. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ipmidetectd — the IPMI node detection monitoring daemon. that's it, that's the vibe 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ipmidetectd [OPTION...]

literally just run it, optionally with some flags. slay.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the ipmidetectd daemon is out here regularly sending out IPMI pings to figure out whether your nodes have functioning IPMI interfaces or not 👑 that's its whole job and it does it well.

it's primarily used to figure out which nodes in the cluster are not functioning properly — which, honestly, is a self-care move for your cluster, because it lets IPMI commands get executed across the cluster faster by skipping those nodes that would automatically timeout 😭 like why wait around for a node that's not gonna answer? not the vibe. we move.

bestie, listen — the ipmidetectd daemon must be configured using the ipmidetectd configuration file. until hosts to be pinged are configured, ipmidetectd will not function properly. that's not a suggestion, that's a requirement 💀

see the ipmidetectd.conf(5) manpage for additional information. iykyk ✨

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -c FILE, --config-file — specify an alternate configuration file. like, if you wanna use a different one, this is how. go off 💅
  • -d, --debug — turn on debugging and run the daemon in the foreground. main character energy fr fr, it stays right there where you can see it 🔥
  • -V, --version — output version. iconic behavior, honestly.

🌈 ERRORS 🌈

errors are logged to syslog. that's the whole section. short and sweet 🍓

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /etc/freeipmi//ipmidetectd.conf

(yes, that's two slashes, and yes we're keeping it exactly like that — no cap, that's what it says 🫶)

🙈 REPORTING BUGS 🙈

found a bug? don't suffer in silence bestie, report it to:

  • <freeipmi-users@gnu.org>
  • <freeipmi-devel@gnu.org>

they literally want to hear from you 💜

  • Copyright (C) 2007-2015 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
  • Copyright (C) 2007 The Regents of the University of California.

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. periodt. ✨

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

and that's the page!! 💖 this whole thing came to you courtesy of ipmidetectd 1.6.20, dated 2026-10-05 — go forth and detect those nodes, bestie, you're gonna ate 🌟💅

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