Poweredge 2650 RAC firmware 3.10 - no sensors anymore

[Alois Treindl]

Alois Treindl wrote:
> I have updated the RAC formwar of a poweredge 2650 today from version 
> 1.0 (or 1.1) to 3.10
> 
> Now I have these problems:
> 
> No sensors available in web browser interface.
> 
> Also RAC.pm sripts find no sensors anymore.
> 
> Is there something I missed, or is d_a1215v31_bm.exe a broken
> software update?
> 

I solved the problem myself.

The Dell readme for the 3.10 RAC formware release tells that a RAC reset
must be made. The readme claims that this is possible via the web
interface. I found not how the web interface could do it.

But the Poweredge::RAC perl moduls could do it,
by calling $server->rac_reset()

Now the sensors are back.

The two question below remain:

> 
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> I also have a few other questions:
> 
> - how to chnage the IP address of the RAC card?
> - how to chnage the login password of the RAC card from root/calvin to 
> something else?
>