02-04-2011
You should probably learn both. Shell scripting is easier to learn and can do lots of stuff. It takes longer to learn Perl but Perl can do everything that can be done via shell scripting and lots of stuff that would very hard or even impossible with a shell script. I suggest you learn shell scripting first then learn Perl. Lots of people have Unix/Linux jobs without knowing Perl, but not knowing shell scripting is much more of a handicapp. I personally would not hire anyone who could not write basic scripts. In the interest of full disclosure, some people call me "old school".
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openipmish
openipmish(1) Shell interface to an IPMI system openipmish(1)
NAME
openipmish - Shell interface to an IPMI system
SYNOPSIS
openipmish [option]
DESCRIPTION
The openipmish is a command interpreter that gives the full power of the OpenIPMI library to a user-level command language. It is designed
so it can easily be driven with a scripting language like TCL, it has well-formed output.
openipmish starts up with no connections or anything of that nature. You must enter commands to make connections to domains.
OPTIONS
--dmsg Turn on message debugging, this will dump all messages to debug log output.
--drawmsg
Turn on raw message debugging, this will dump all low-level messages to debug log output. This differes from normal message debug-
ging in that all protocol messages are also dumped, not just IPMI messages.
--dmem Turn on memory debugging, this will cause memory allocation and deallocations to be checked. When the program terminates, it will
dump all memory that was not properly freed (leaked).
--dlock
Turn on lock debugging, this will check lock operations to make sure that locks are help in all the proper places and make sure that
locks are properly nested.
--snmp Enable the SNMP trap handler. openipmish must be compiled with SNMP code enabled for this option to be available.
--help Help output
COMMANDS
openipmish follows the standard command syntax defined in ipmi_cmdlang(7). See that for the details on most commands. The IPMI manual
that comes with OpenIPMI will also be quite handy.
openipmish defines some commands that are not in the standard command language. These are:
read Read and execute commands from the given file.
exit Quit
redisp_cmd on|off
Normally, openipmish redisplays the command line when an event comes in. This is nice for interactive use, but bad for scripting.
This lets you turn that function on and off.
SEE ALSO
ipmi_cmdlang(7), ipmi_ui(1)
KNOWN PROBLEMS
None
AUTHOR
Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.org>
OpenIPMI 05/13/03 openipmish(1)