Getting LCD status messages on PE1950/2950

[Mikolaj Kucharski]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:27:16PM -0500, Randy Martin wrote:
> Is there a way to obtain the text currently displayed on the LCD screens
> of PE1950 and 2950 servers?  When we have a hardware failure, I can easily
> get the hardware event log information via IPMI, but it never contains the
> exact text that displays on the LCD screen.  The LCD text many times
> contains useful information such as what DIMM reported bad, etc.

Dunno if it helps:


# omconfig chassis frontpanel lcdindex=1 config=custom text=$(hostname | cut -f1 -d.)
Front Panel button controls configured successfully.




# omreport chassis frontpanel
Front Panel Information

Front Panel Buttons Information

Power Button : Enabled
NMI Button   : Disabled

Front Panel LCD Information

LCD Line 1 : rhel5u1





# omreport about

Product name : Server Administrator Install Core (subscription)
Version      : 5.3.0
Copyright    : Copyright (C) Dell Inc. 1995-2007. All rights reserved.
Company      : Dell Inc.

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