PE 1950 LCD access

[Patrick_Boyd at Dell.com]

Sorry, from what I can tell this is a new feature of the 9G servers. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Dickie [mailto:greg at max-t.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:30 AM
To: Boyd, Patrick
Cc: haakon at basefarm.no; naidu at kazeon.com; linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: RE: PE 1950 LCD access



Yahoo! How come we couldn't do that on all the old machines or will this
now work on 2800s?

Thanks,
Greg

On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 10:37 -0500, Patrick_Boyd at dell.com wrote:
> Sorry I mistyped the command. It should be `omconfig chassis 
> frontpanel
> lcdindex=1 config=custom text=<insert custom text here>`
> 
> Here is a script that I use to put the 15 minute load average onto the

> LCD of my 2900.
> 
> ----Code Begins here----
> #!/bin/sh
> while [ true ]; do
> omconfig chassis frontpanel lcdindex=1 config=custom text=`cat 
> /proc/loadavg | gawk '{print $3}'` sleep 30 Done ----End Code----
> 
> Patrick Boyd
> Dell Storage Software Engineer
> (512)728-3182
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of 
> Patrick_Boyd at dell.com
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 9:10 AM
> To: haakon at basefarm.no; naidu at kazeon.com; linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: RE: PE 1950 LCD access
> 
> Try using OMSA with the command `omconfig chassis leds lcdindex=1 
> config=custom text=<insert custom text here>`
> 
> You can script this to display dynamic data or change it once to 
> display what ever static data you want.
> 
> Patrick Boyd
> Dell Storage Software Engineer
> (512)728-3182
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Haakon Gjersvik

> Eriksen
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 1:15 AM
> To: Naidu Bollineni; linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: Re: PE 1950 LCD access
> 
> Naidu Bollineni wrote:
> > Is there any documentation on how to program and access the front 
> > LCD,
> 
> > like APIs?
> 
> As far as I've been able to figure out, this string is only 
> customizable from the BIOS. Which means, there's no (documented) way 
> of showing dynamic content like loadavg.
> This was the case for 2650s, anyway. Haven't been able to find any 
> indication that it's been changed since then.
> 
--
Greg Dickie
just a guy
Maximum Throughput