setting Dell power restore

[Alexander Dupuy]

Back in February / March I asked about this for x950 systems; I got an
answer then (it turned out I was already handling it, but just didn't
realize that I was).  However, with the upcoming EOL for those systems,
I just wanted to update the thread/topic for the new R*10 systems.


These don't seem to have a setting in the BIOS Setup (I looked harder
this time - the last time I failed to scroll down to see it) and the
acpower option to syscfg is not recognized on an R710 that I have for
testing.  However, the ipmitool chassis power policy option *does* work
on these systems (the default appears to be "previous"):


# ipmitool chassis status | grep -i restore
Power Restore Policy : always-on
# ipmitool chassis policy
chassis policy <state>
   list        : return supported policies
   always-on   : turn on when power is restored
   previous    : return to previous state when power is restored
   always-off  : stay off after power is restored
# ipmitool chassis policy always-on
Set chassis power restore policy to always-on
# ipmitool chassis status | grep -i restore
Power Restore Policy : always-on
# ipmitool chassis policy previous
Set chassis power restore policy to previous
# ipmitool chassis status | grep -i restore
Power Restore Policy : previous

@alex


Joe Kaiser wrote:

> using the dell toolkit supplied toolkit
>
> syscfg --acpower=on
>
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Alexander Dupuy <alex.dupuy at mac.com
> <mailto:alex.dupuy at mac.com>> wrote:
>
>     Currently, our Dell PowerEdge 1950 and 2950 systems' power restore
>     policy (what they do if the power was cut, and then turned back on) is
>     "always-off":
>
>     # ipmitool -I open chassis status | grep -i restore
>     Power Restore Policy : always-off
>
>     In theory, it should be possible to set this to "previous" or at least
>     "always-on":
>
>     # ipmitool -I open chassis policy help
>     chassis policy <state>
>       list        : return supported policies
>       always-on   : turn on when power is restored
>       previous    : return to previous state when power is restored
>       always-off  : stay off after power is restored
>
>     However, this command does not work at all:
>
>     # ipmitool -I open chassis policy previous
>     Power Restore Policy command failed: Invalid command
>     # ipmitool -I open chassis policy always-on
>     Power Restore Policy command failed: Invalid command
>     # ipmitool -I open chassis policy list
>     Power Restore Policy command failed: Invalid command
>
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