Getting LCD status messages on PE1950/2950

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

So if you dont want to install all of OMSA, we have an updated version of ipmitool available in the dell hardware repository that has some facilities to control the LCD panel status.
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Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com on behalf of Mikolaj Kucharski
Sent: Tue 4/1/2008 8:45 AM
To: Randy Martin
Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Re: Getting LCD status messages on PE1950/2950
 
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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