Hi Rahul,
[of course, maybe some of my settings are naiive or erronous; feel
free to correct me]
OK
I can pretty much remote monitor logs, stats, remote power reset etc.
The only two things I cannot:
(1) Can't do a Serial-on-LAN (SOL); My Dell server needs a special
card (read more money) for this function. That is unfortunate.
What server? If you have Power Control via IPMI SoL is there (at
least anything less than 3 years old. Hopefully it's just ipmitool
recompile as others suggested... all the prebuilt packages I've ever
used had it.
(2)Can't mod the BIOS settings or even dump them. Is there a way to
modify the BIOS settings via. IPMI (in general)
Dell provides for cmd line changing of almost all BIOS/RAID/Remote
Access Card settings via their own tool, omconfig. Proprietary, yes.
Works, yes. Avoid all the gui stuff during the installation with a
couple install flags and the command line "omconfig", "omreport" are
very scriptable. Industry standard, if you're Dell :) Googling for
either will get you straight to the command line reference:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/svradmin/1.9/en/cli/cli_cc7c.htm#1093458
Cheers!
Greg
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