iDRAC6 and modifying the LCD text.

[Tom Brown]

> Is there a quick way to update the text on the LCD display from within 
> Linux?  I'd really like to display the current hostname and system 
> load if at all possible.
>
> I've been attempting this via racadm and the closest value that I can 
> find is the -g ifcRacManagedNodeOS  -o ifcRacMnOsHostname value which 
> in idrac6.  The problem is that this is a read-only value and links 
> back to the actual "Host Name" displayed in the LCD window.   Looks 
> like in earlier versions this was a read/write value according to the 
> docs.  
>

do you have openmanage installed?

omconfig chassis frontpanel lcdindex=1 config=custom text="15 min load 
average ` cat /proc/loadavg | gawk '{print $3}'`"

which is scripted to run every 5 mins