OpenHPI is an open source project created with the intent of providing an implementation of the SA Forum's Hardware Platform Interface (HPI). HPI provides an abstracted interface to managing computer hardware, typically for chassis and rack based servers.

OpenHPI project includes resource modeling; access to and control over sensor, control, watchdog, and inventory data associated with resources; abstracted System Event Log interfaces; hardware events and alerts; and a managed hotswap interface.

OpenHPI provides a modular mechanism for adding new hardware and device support easily. Many plugins exist in the OpenHPI source tree to provide access to various types of hardware. This includes, but is not limited to, IPMI based servers, Blade Center, and machines which export data via sysfs.

What's New in This Release:
· A greatly improved RPM spec file: 'make rpm' from the source tree won't require root access anymore. RPMs are created per-plugin, isolating specific plugin dependencies.
· Plugin RPMs are only created depending on configure enable/disable parameters.
· Tailored to be 64-bit platform friendly. BladeCenter plugin improvements.
· Better event log time handling.
· Documentation installation issues have been resolved.
· README installation and SGML documentation problems have been fixed.
· Conformance bugs have been fixed.
· Several HPI conformance bugs discussed on the mailing list were fixed.
· Many other bugfixes.