[Ipmitool-devel] ipmitool lanplus API?

[<Dick.Detweiler@Emerson.com>]

Hello,

I am part of a team maintaining an application that uses ipmitool and its lanplus interface to monitor several servers.  Ipmitool is invoked via a system() call with the command line which include redirection of stdout and stderr.  We have significant investment in the parsing of the output that is generated but would like to increase the efficiency of the mechanism by creating a shared library and calling an API instead of accessing an application via forking a process.

My review of available documentation leads me to believe there isn't an API available and if we wanted to do this, we would have to modify the source ourselves.

Is this correct?

Thanks for your time,
Dick Detweiler