Hi Dell, Would it be possible to contribute the modifications made by Dell to the ipmitool project to support latest generations of server (via the delloem sub-command) upstream?
Right now, the only way I'm aware of to get support for 14G servers is to get an ISO from the Dell support web site, extract an RPM out of it, and then get a binary version of ipmitool out of that RPM. This is cumbersome and impractical. And by the way, that version is 1.8.14.dell50, while most distributions ship 1.8.18, so it's not even reasonable to override the stock distro version with Dell's, as 1.8.14 dates from 2014... I think it would benefit everybody, including Dell, to contribute those patches upstream, so they could be integrated in every single Linux distribution. And this could be a good starting point to get things going: https://github.com/ipmitool/ipmitool/issues/18 It has already been discussed numerous places, to apparently no effect, so it would be great if action could be taken for real. We even opened a "Dell EMC Enterprise Support Case" in June 2018 (case # 967863792), which has been closed without any answer... Thanks! -- Kilian _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
