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

[Ryan Cox]

Chris,

I'm not sure how to do it with any ipmi-based commands, but "dmidecode 
-s baseboard-serial-number" should return that information from the OS.  
On my Dell systems, it returns two rows of information.  The first 
contains the system's service tag, the board's serial number (ipmi-fru's 
first entry), and the slot number separated by period characters.  The 
second line is the chassis' serial number and the slot number, similarly 
separated.  We don't have asset tags set, so those may show up in there 
to if you use them.  Information can be pulled from HP systems in a 
similar fashion with "dmidecode -t 204 |grep 'Server Bay'" or just 
"dmidecode |grep 'Server Bay'"

This information is also available remotely via SNMP to the iDRAC: 
"snmpget -t 1 -r 1 -c public -v2c -O qve $yourhost-idrac 
DELL-RAC-MIB::drsProductSystemSlot.0".  You'll have to download the MIBs 
from support.dell.com.

By the way, we also do inventory tracking in a similar fashion to what 
you're moving towards.  It works quite nicely when everything is set up.

I've looked before at doing this via IPMI but also came up short.

Ryan

On 12/18/2011 07:39 AM, 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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