PowerEdge server LED displays

[Brian Cline]

I'll have a look. Thanks for the pointers.


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael E Brown [mailto:Michael_E_Brown at dell.com] 
Sent: Friday 16 March 2007 12:33
To: Brian Cline
Cc: libsmbios-devel at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: Re: PowerEdge server LED displays

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:55:22AM -0400, Brian Cline wrote:
> Is it possible to use libsmbios to control the text that appears in
the
> small LED window on the front panel of newer PowerEdge models? More
> specifically, the 2850 and 2950. I'm not even sure how those are
> controlled or if it would go through bios at all, so this may be a
dumb
> question. We have quite a few of these servers and it would help if we
> could place custom text in those info windows. Any info is greatly
> appreciated.

No, you cannot use libsmbios to control the LEDs on PowerEdge servers. 
(at least that I know of. I didnt see anything in my reference docs
about it.)

BUT, you can use 1) Dell OpenManage (preferred, recommended), or 
2) openipmi to do this.

You can install openmanage from the unofficial Dell yum repository. 
http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/ has instructions (and links to the
users guides and such)

If you want to use openipmi, you have to send a raw ipmi command.
Search through the linux-poweredge archives for the details on this.
--
Michael