Thought someone may be interested in raw IPMI commands for LCD display
controls on 9th generation Dell hardware (PowerEdge 1950, 2950 anyways).
See the attached email.
-- Will
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If you can get omconfig working, that's probably your best option. If
you couldn't (like me), here's another option. I'm running FC5.
This example assumes that you have IPMI-over-LAN set up on your host
answering to the hostname 'baltar-ipmi'. I'll also assume that you have
an admin user configured on your BMC with the user/pass
"rootuser"/"rootpass". This will write the string 'foobar' on your LCD.
% ipmitool -H baltar-ipmi -I lan -U rootuser -P rootpass -L ADMINISTRATOR raw
0x6 0x58 193 0 0 6 0x66 0x6F 0x6F 0x62 0x61 0x72
% ipmitool -H baltar-ipmi -I lan -U rootuser -P rootpass -L ADMINISTRATOR raw
0x6 0x58 194 0
The first command sets the user-defined string to use on the LCD. The
second informs the BMC that it should use the user-defined string
instead of the default text.
The raw IPMI command is the tricky part.
0x6 This is the network function (NetFn) number for Applications.
See the IPMI spec for more information.
0x58 The operation number for setting system information. IPMI spec
(page 572)
193 or 194 The selector for setting the Dell LCD text. 193 means
set the string to this, 194 controls what string to show
in the LCD.
0 Which chunk of 16 bytes of text you're editing (62 bytes are
allowed).
0 Text encoding. This should always be 0 for ASCII.
6 This is the length of the string you're encoding.
'foobar' is 6 characters. You can send 14 characters with each
chunk.
This is because you can only send 16 bytes total (1 byte for
text
encoding, 1 byte for length, 14 bytes for text).
0x66 0x6F 0x6F 0x62 0x61 0x72
The ASCII codes for 'foobar'.
I haven't quite figured out how to get more than 14 characters on the
screen. Also, I think this stuff should work fine if you're using the
IPMI driver instead of IPMI-over-LAN.
Hope this helps.
>From jens-devel:
> Hi Michael,
> I know that dell does not support Fedora Core 6, but I had no problems
> installing the rpm´s and now I wonder why I get the error-message.
>
> Is the error "Error! LCD options are not supported on this system."
> always send on an unsupported system without even trying to access the
> LCD - just because its Fedora?
>
> I can load the modules without any problems - so I wonder if there is a
> hidden force-option to make omconfig work on unsupported platforms, too?
>
> Greetings
> Jens
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
> > OMSA is not supported by Dell on any Fedora Core version, only Red Hat
> > Enterprise and Suse Enterprise distributions.
> > --
> > Michael
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jens
> > Sent: Fri 2/2/2007 4:22 AM
> > To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> > Subject: LCD access on PowerEdge 1950 with Fedora 6
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have read the email on
> > http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2006-September/027461.html
> > and have a simular problem - perhaps anyone can give me a hint:
> >
> > I run Fedora 6 on our PowerEdge 1950 and I would like to see the load
> > average on the lcd-display. Therefor I installed OMI-50-MN-LX_A01.tar.gz
> > and tried:
> > omconfig chassis frontpanel lcdindex=1 config=custom text=Hallo
> > But the result is the error-message:
> > Error! LCD options are not supported on this system.
> >
> > Does anyone has any idea what I have to do to make this work?
> >
> > Greetings
> > Jens Henrik
> >
> > = Some more infos about the system =
> > uname -a
> > Linux pe01 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 #1 SMP Wed Dec 20 14:51:34 EST 2006
> > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >
> > omconfig about details=true:
> > Product name : Server Administrator Install Core (subscription)
> > Version : 5.0.0
> > Copyright : Copyright (C) Dell Inc. 1995-2006. All rights reserved.
> > Company : Dell Inc.
> > Contains : Data Engine 5.6.0
> > : Remote Access Card Data Populator RAC5, 5.0.0
> > : Helper package for installing correct OpenIPMI support 5.0.0
> > : OpenManage Inventory Collector 2.4.0
> > : Hardware Application Programming Interface 5.6.0
> > : Instrumentation Service Integration Layer 3.0.0
> > : Instrumentation Service 5.6.0
> > : Server Administrator Framework 3.0.0 (331)
> >
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