I run an automatic provisioning and installation service via cobbler for 
our RedHat installs. Now as my laziness increases, I am trying to find a 
way to auto-configure a few extra things. I would like for the script to 
detect whether it is on a PowerEdge system and if so link in the Dell 
Repositories, install OpenManage and install the firmware tools. What I 
can't figure out is a way to reliably know that the system is a Dell 
PowerEdge system. I could do something like dmidecode -s 
system-product-name and grep -i for poweredge (in loose terms), but are 
all PowerEdge servers supported by OpenManage? Is there a better way to 
do this?

On a related note I am trying to do the same thing for the DRAC cards in 
the systems, I would like a way to detect that a DRAC card is present 
and if so run a set of commands. I can do this for a a DRAC 5 pretty 
reliably using lsusb -d 0x413c:0000 which correlates to the DRAC 5 
cards, however the iDRAC6 cards don't seem to have this option 
available. Does anyone know of a way to automagically detect their 
presence?

Thanks,
-Erinn

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