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OpenHPI (Service Availability)
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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The OpenHPI project was conceived by Carrier Grade Linux hardware experts,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> and announced on the <a href="/facts/Linux_kernel_mailing_list/nNgpLcfI">Linux kernel mailing list</a> on 19 March 2003, by Andrea Brugger. OpenHPI was described as "a universal interface for creating resource system models, such as chassis and rack-based servers, but extendable for other domains such as clustering, virtualization, and simulation". It had modular hardware support implemented using a plugin architecture, the top-level OpenHPI implementation being independent of the underlying hardware.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> Supporters include IBM, Intel, Samsung, HPE, and others technical equipment manufacturers. </p> <h2 id="features">Features</h2> <p>The following features are supported by OpenHPI software:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> </p> <ul><li>OpenHPI base library</li> <li>OpenHPI utility functions</li> <li>OpenHPI Daemon</li> <li>HPI Client programs and HPI shell</li> <li>Simulator Plugin</li> <li>Dynamic Simulator Plugin</li> <li>Slave Plugin</li> <li>Test Agent Plugin</li> <li>IMPI Direct Plugin</li> <li>SNMP BladeCenter/RSA Plugin</li> <li>iLO2 RIBCL Plugin</li> <li>SOAP/XML BladeSystem c-Class Plugin</li> <li>Oneview/REST Synergy Plugin</li> <li>rtas Plugin</li> <li>sysfs Plugin</li> <li>watchdog Plugin</li></ul> <p>OpenHPI also provides a set of client programs as examples for typical HPI usage, for testing, or invocation from scripts. The hpi_shell is a command shell for calling HPI functions interactively. </p> <h2 id="releases">Releases</h2> <p>The following table summarizes the main OpenHPI releases: </p> Main Releases history<table><tbody><tr><th>Version</th><th>Release date</th><th>Notes</th></tr><tr><td>Old version, not maintained: 1.00</td><td>30 June 2004</td><td>Support for IPMI based servers and blades (via OpenIPMI or IPMIDirect plugins), IBM Blade Center (via SNMP Blade Center plugin), IBM xSeries servers (via SNMP RSA plugin), Linux 2.4 & 2.6 watchdog devices (via watchdog plugin), Linux 2.6 systems (via sysfs plugin), A Dummy Plugin designed for testing and writing HPI applications; Sample commands: hpisensor, hpiinv, hipsel, hpipower/hpireset. Along with the release there is a companion SNMP subagent. SuSE/Fedora/RedHat packages.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>Old version, not maintained: 2.0.2</td><td>24 February 2005</td><td>Threading bug fixes.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>Old version, not maintained: 2.6.0</td><td>31 July 2006</td><td>Highlights: Hotswap management enhancements; Daemon/Plugin enhancements; Persistence of Domain Alarm Table; Features: Blade Center Telco H support, IPMI ATCA support, Blade Center topology is now ATCA topology friendly, More blade sensors supported, PowerPC support, Unicode text buffer validation added. Extras: PyOpenHPI python module, SNMP sub-agent, HPIView.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>Old version, not maintained: 2.15.0</td><td>2009</td><td>Features: Build, Clients, Dynamic Simulator; Bug fixes; Accumulated features: Support for Windows, FreeBSD, IPv6; Improved HPI support. Plugins for oa_soap, HP ProLiant Rack (iLO2), HP BladeSystem c-Class; HPI-B.03.01; Bugfixes; Refactoring. Base libraries for C#/Java/Python.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>Old version, still maintained: 3.0.0</td><td>17 March</td><td>Features: Documentation; HP c-Class, OpenHPI Daemon. Bug fixes. Accumulated features.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>Old version, still maintained: 3.6.0</td><td>26 August 2015</td><td>Stable release.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>Latest version: 3.8.0</td><td>9 March 2018</td><td>Stable release. Changes to many plugins, build, utils, clients and daemon; Bug fixes.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">Legend:Old version, not maintainedOld version, still maintainedLatest versionLatest preview versionFuture version</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/SA_Forum/kgPXlLTM">SAForum</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/OpenSAF/cs9XGJmG">OpenSAF</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Scope_alliance/qN9lHC73">SCOPE Alliance</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://openhpi.sourceforge.io">OpenHPI</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081006060141/http://saforum.org/">SA Forum</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"OpenHPI/Wiki". SourceForge. Archived from the original on 2018-06-21. Retrieved 2020-12-28. <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/openhpi/wiki/Home/" target="_blank">https://sourceforge.net/p/openhpi/wiki/Home/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"OpenHPI". GitHub. Retrieved 2020-12-28. <a href="https://github.com/open-hpi/openhpi" target="_blank">https://github.com/open-hpi/openhpi</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Sean Dauge (2005). "OpenHPI: An Open Source Reference Implementation of the SA Forum Hardware Platform Interface". Service Availability. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 3335. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 48–60. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30225-4_4. ISBN 978-3-540-30225-4. <a href="978-3-540-30225-4" target="_blank">978-3-540-30225-4</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Maria Toeroe; Francis Tam (2012). Service Availability: Principles and Practice. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-1199-4167-5. <a href="978-1-1199-4167-5" target="_blank">978-1-1199-4167-5</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"OpenHPI". OpenHPI. Archived from the original on 2019-08-19. Retrieved 2020-12-28. <a href="https://openhpi.sourceforge.io/index.html" target="_blank">https://openhpi.sourceforge.io/index.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"OpenHPI/Wiki". SourceForge. Archived from the original on 2018-06-21. Retrieved 2020-12-28. <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/openhpi/wiki/Home/" target="_blank">https://sourceforge.net/p/openhpi/wiki/Home/</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Maria Toeroe; Francis Tam (2012). Service Availability: Principles and Practice. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-1199-4167-5. <a href="978-1-1199-4167-5" target="_blank">978-1-1199-4167-5</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Sean Dauge (2005). "OpenHPI: An Open Source Reference Implementation of the SA Forum Hardware Platform Interface". Service Availability. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 3335. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 48–60. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30225-4_4. ISBN 978-3-540-30225-4. <a href="978-3-540-30225-4" target="_blank">978-3-540-30225-4</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Andrea L. Brugger. ""[ANNOUNCE] OpenHPI – an implementation for SAForum's HPI"". Kernel Traffic. Archived from the original on 2020-09-15. Retrieved 2020-12-28. <a href="http://www.kerneltraffic.org/kernel-traffic/kt20030323_210.txt" target="_blank">http://www.kerneltraffic.org/kernel-traffic/kt20030323_210.txt</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>"OpenHPI". GitHub. Retrieved 2020-12-28. <a href="https://github.com/open-hpi/openhpi" target="_blank">https://github.com/open-hpi/openhpi</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>"OpenHPI CHANGELOGS". Archived from the original on 2018-11-09. Retrieved 29 December 2020. <a href="http://www.openhpi.org/Changelogs" target="_blank">http://www.openhpi.org/Changelogs</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>"OpenHPI NEWS". Archived from the original on 2020-01-23. Retrieved 29 December 2020. <a href="http://openhpi.org/News" target="_blank">http://openhpi.org/News</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>"OpenHPI CHANGELOGS". Archived from the original on 2018-11-09. 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