Ruben, > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of Ruben Laban > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 3:46 AM > To: linux-poweredge-Lists > Subject: Collect info about few dozen servers > > Hello list, > <snip> > > I just tried booting the OMSA Live cd, which after quite some boottime, > and using omreport I was able to collect pretty much all the required > info. It would take quite some time per server though. > Ideally I would netboot each server into an omsa "enabled" environment, > from where I could run a script which would dump all info to an usb stick > (in a file based on the server's tag). > > Anyone have some ideas on how to go about it?
You should be able to boot the OMSA LiveCD, at least 6.2 and 6.3, via PXE. I've used Fedora's livecd-iso-to-pxeboot to create the kernel and initrd for use. You'll need to remove the 'live_ram' parameter for it to boot over the network successfully. Example: http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2010-August/042874.html label omsa630 kernel omsa630 append rootflags=loop initrd=omsa630.img root=/OMSA63-CentOS55-x86_64-LiveCD.iso rootfstype=iso9660 ro quiet liveimg If you don't want to hit the console of each system you can drop a script to collect the info you want on an NFS export. Once booted to the live environment you'll need to know the IP(s) to access the system(s) remotely via SSH to kick off the info gathering and save it to a writable NFS export. > > Regards, > Ruben Laban -- Rayford _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
