IDRAC7 – discover Host Name, OS Name, OS Version when running RHEL 6

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Just picked up a Dell PowerEdge R720 which comes with an iDRAC 7, and am wondering how to get the host operating system (Red Hat 6) to automatically report the hostname, os name, and os version to the DRAC without having to manually set these parameters.

Is there something I need to install / configure on the OS side?

Best Answer

Apparently the answer is to install the following packages and enable their services. This has been wrapped into a single shell script for convenience:

#!/bin/bash
wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/bootstrap.cgi | bash
yum install OpenIPMI srvadmin-base srvadmin-storageservices srvadmin-racsvc srvadmin-idrac7 srvadmin-omcommon -y
chkconfig ipmi on
service ipmi start
/opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/srvadmin-services.sh start

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