Re: [Freeipmi-users] Dell ipmi-oem chassis slot availability?

[Ryan Cox]

Al,

I tried iterating from 0xC0 through 0xCF on some Dell M610s and didn't 
find the slot number.  I compared the results of several that were in 
the same chassis so that most of the information would be the same.  I 
saw no differences that seemed to indicate the slot number.  The only 
differences at all that I saw from blades in the same chassis were at 
0xC3 and 0xC5 (expected).  We don't have asset tags set or I would 
expect to see differences in 0xC4.

Ryan

On 12/19/2011 11:04 AM, Albert Chu wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> I might be misunderstanding your question, but it seems you want to
> figure out what type of board is inside each slot?  I assume the
> ipmi-oem Dell command 'get-system-info' isn't enough b/c you only get
> the board name and not the slot number?
>
> I don't know of any OEM commands for this, so the first thing is I'd bug
> Dell, b/c someone there might be able to provide it (you will have to
> fight them to get to the right people, the first line support will
> likely have no idea).  If you get something from them, please let the
> list know and we can put it in ipmi-oem.
>
> Depending on your willingness to try and reverse engineer something,
> there might be a way to determine it.  The following is an ipmi-raw that
> should implement the same thing as "ipmi-oem dell get-system-info
> asset-tag"
>
> /usr/sbin/ipmi-raw 0 6 59 0 0xC4 0 0
>
> In ipmi-oem here's a comment on the parameter numbers:
>
>     * guid parameter = 0xC3
>     * asset-tag parameter = 0xC4
>     * service-tag parameter = 0xC5
>     * chassis-service-tag parameter = 0xC6
>     * chassis-related-service-tag parameter = 0xC7
>     * board-revision parameter = 0xC8
>
> This is what we know of or have been told.  It wouldn't be hard to
> imagine that 0xC9, 0xCA ,0xCB might return your slot number.
>
> Al
>
> On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 06:39 -0800, DeRamus, Chris wrote:
> > I've just learned about the wonders of IPMI this past month and have re-written 
> > our inventory system from scratch to take advantage of the data the FreeIPMI 
> > suite of tools provides easy access to. Right now the only drawback is that I 
> > have to run a secondary script at each co-location to access each of our Dell 
> > M1000e chassis, running proprietary racadm command over SSH to correlate which 
> > 10g/11g PowerEdge blades are running in the various slots. I've been digging 
> > through the documentation in hopes of finding either a oem command that I can 
> > run or even a ipmi-raw command that can be passed to each blade to pull this 
> > data, but so far I've come up short.
> >
> > Has anyone on this list been able to identify a method to capture this 
> > particular information? Dell's OMSA utility also provides the slot information 
> > as seen in the output below.
> >
> > #>  omreport chassis info
> > Chassis Information
> >
> > Index                                    : 0
> > Chassis Name                             : Main System Chassis
> > Host Name                                : xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > iDRAC6 Version                           : 1.60
> > Chassis Model                            : PowerEdge M600
> > Chassis Lock                             : Not Present
> > Chassis Service Tag                      : XX11YY2
> > Server Module Service Tag                : YY11XX2
> > Server Module Location                   : Slot 14<-- This is what I need
> > Flash chassis identify LED state         : Off
> > Flash chassis identify LED timeout value : 300
> >
> > Thanks in advance for the time guys.
> >
> > --Chris
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Brigham Young University

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