On Thursday 07 October 2010 at 15:32 (CET), [email protected] wrote: > > 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.
This nudged me in the "right" direction. My current solution: a PXE bootable Ubuntu Lucid (root on NFS) with OMSA 6.3.0 preinstalled (using Dell's repo) and a script that runs various omreport commands and stores the output on the same NFS share. Thanks all for the various tips 'n pointers. Regards, Ruben Laban _______________________________________________ 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
