Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote, On 01/20/2010 01:46 PM:
> I run an automatic provisioning and installation service via cobbler for
> our RedHat installs. Now as my laziness increases,
there's some saying about how *much* work sysadmins are willing
to invest due to laziness ;)
> 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?
My guess is any Dell equipment with a BMC is covered by OM, but that's
just a guess.
This should then work for that...
[r...@foo ~]# ipmitool mc info
Device ID : 32
Device Revision : 0
Firmware Revision : 2.28
IPMI Version : 2.0
Manufacturer ID : 674 <--- This may be good to key off
Manufacturer Name : DELL Inc
Product ID : 256 (0x0100)
Product Name : Unknown (0x100)
Device Available : yes
Provides Device SDRs : yes
Additional Device Support :
Sensor Device
SDR Repository Device
SEL Device
FRU Inventory Device
IPMB Event Receiver
Bridge
Chassis Device
Aux Firmware Rev Info :
0x00
0x00
0x00
0x00
> 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?
yeah, that's something that's bugged me too. 'lspci' would show up
a DRAC4, but thanks for the clue on 'lsusb' for the DRAC5!
(following this logic... lspcmcia ?? heh ;) darn :-(
'ipmitool fru list' doesn't show it, and i'm pretty sure dmidecode
doesn't show it (unless there's encoding in one of the OEM specific
types, and i wouldn't rule that out)
--stephen
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