wrapping various ipmi related tools and libs for node via node-ffi @ https://github.com/rbranson/node-ffi.git

First, clone https://github.com/speedops/ipmitool.git and configure and make it.

Then, make the ipmi stuff here to do ipmitool stuff in node.js

i looked at different ways of interfacing ipmitool from node.js. The options i played with are:

• http://github.com/joyent/v8plus -- this has funny documentation (see FAQ). I had some issues with it, I'm too afraid to talk about this in public
• https://github.com/jmendeth/v8u -- this looked promising. still too complex
• https://github.com/rbranson/node-ffi -- this is the one I ended up using. Because I can make sense of it.

• wanted to avoid shelling out to call ipmitool CLI commands
• want to avoid having to connect for every command; want to run multiple commands per established channel
• want a simple way to call -- without having to hack inside ipmitool too much and figure out which sequence of calls to make -- ipmitool does not seem to be designed to be used as a library
• do not want fork/exec or shelling out per command
• do not want hundreds of boilerplate wrappers for each command combo
• make it fast and be async compatible
• if you understand ipmitool command or/and if the ipmitool command works for you this wrapper should work for you as well without having to figure out which C functions to call in which order
• it does not prevent you from cooking up more javascripty / nicer API (see ipmi.c and ipmi.js for alternative API that are less stringy).

Look at ipmi.js