Almost every tutorial I’ve looked at tells you to install the racadm utility by downloading the OMSA tarball and installing all the RPMs, etc. It’s a lot easier to install from the srvadmin repository.
First, wget and run the repo install script from Dell. This will make the srvadmin packages available to yum.
[[email protected]centos6 ~]# wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/latest/bootstrap.cgi | bash
Next, you can list all the srvadmin packages and pick what you want. In my case, all I need is racadm for iDRAC7, so I’ll just install that to keep it simple.
[[email protected] ~]# yum -y install srvadmin-idrac7
You will see this message after it installs, meaning you will need to logout to use plain old racadm from the CLI. Otherwise, you’ll need to use the full path since $PATH has not been reset (until you logout/login).
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After the install process completes, you may need
to log out and then log in again to reset the PATH
variable to access the Server Administrator CLI utilities
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At this point, whether you logout or not, racadm is available to use from the full path. On my CentOS 6 installation, it was in /opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/.
[[email protected] ~]# sudo /opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/racadm -r 192.168.0.120 -u root -p calvin help Security Alert: Certificate is invalid - self signed certificate Continuing execution. Use -S option for racadm to stop execution on certificate-related errors. help [subcommand] -- display usage summary for a subcommand arp -- display the networking ARP table clearasrscreen -- clear the last ASR (crash) screen closessn -- close a session clrraclog -- clear the RAC log clrsel -- clear the System Event Log (SEL) config -- Deprecated: modify RAC configuration properties coredump -- display the last RAC coredump coredumpdelete -- delete the last RAC coredump eventfilters -- Alerts configuration commands fwupdate -- update the RAC firmware get -- display RAC configuration properties getconfig -- Deprecated: display RAC configuration properties getled -- Get the state of the LED on a module. getniccfg -- display current network settings getraclog -- display the RAC log getractime -- display the current RAC time getsel -- display records from the System Event Log (SEL) getsensorinfo -- display system sensors getssninfo -- display session information getsvctag -- display service tag information getsysinfo -- display general RAC and system information gettracelog -- display the RAC diagnostic trace log getuscversion -- display the current USC version details getversion -- display the current version details ifconfig -- display network interface information inlettemphistory -- inlet temperature history operations krbkeytabupload -- upload kerberose keytab file to the RAC lclog -- LCLog operations frontpanelerror -- hide LCD errors - color amber to blue netstat -- display routing table and network statistics ping -- send ICMP echo packets on the network ping6 -- send ICMP echo packets on the network racdump -- display RAC diagnostic information racinternalversion -- Deprecated: Internal command for version exchange racreset -- perform a RAC reset operation racresetcfg -- restore the RAC configuration to factory defaults remoteimage -- make a remote ISO image available to the server serveraction -- perform system power management operations set -- modify RAC configuration properties setled -- Set the state of the LED on a module. setniccfg -- modify network configuration properties sshpkauth -- manage SSH PK authentication keys on the RAC sslcertupload -- upload an SSL certificate to the RAC sslcertdelete -- delete an SSL certificate on the iDRAC sslcertdownload -- download an SSL certificate from the RAC sslcertview -- view SSL certificate information sslcsrgen -- generate a certificate CSR from the RAC sslEncryptionStrength -- Display or modify the SSL Encryption strength. sslkeyupload -- upload an SSL key to the RAC sslresetcfg -- resets the web certificate to default and restarts the web server. testemail -- test RAC e-mail notifications testtrap -- test RAC SNMP trap notifications testalert -- test RAC SNMP - FQDN trap notifications traceroute -- print the route packets trace to network host traceroute6 -- print the route packets trace to network host usercertupload -- upload an user certificate to the DRAC usercertview -- view user certificate information vflashpartition -- manage partitions on the vFlash SD card vflashsd -- perform vFlash SD Card initialization vmdisconnect -- disconnect Virtual Media connections vmkey -- Deprecated: perform vFlash operations license -- License Manager commands debug -- Field Service Debug Authorization facility commands raid -- Monitoring and Inventory of H/W RAID connected to the server. hwinventory -- Monitoring and Inventory of H/W NICs connected to the server. nicstatistics -- Statistics for NICs connected to the server. fcstatistics -- Statistics for FCs connected to the server. update -- Platform Update of the devices on the server jobqueue -- Jobqueue of of the jobs currently scheduled systemconfig -- Backup &/or Restore of iDRAC Config and Firmware Groups idRacInfo -- Information about iDRAC being queried cfgRemoteHosts -- Properties for configuration of the SMTP server cfgUserAdmin -- Information about iDRAC users cfgEmailAlert -- Parameters to configure e-mail alerting capabilities cfgSessionManagement -- Information of the session Properties cfgSerial -- Provides configuration parameters for the iDRAC cfgOobSnmp -- Configuration of the SNMP agent and trap capabilities cfgRacTuning -- Configuration for various iDRAC properties. ifcRacManagedNodeOs -- Properties of the managed server OS cfgRacSecurity -- Configure SSL certificate signing request settings cfgRacVirtual -- Configuration Properties for iDRAC Virtual Media cfgActiveDirectory -- Configuration of the iDRAC Active Directory feature cfgLDAP -- Configuration properties for LDAP settings cfgLdapRoleGroup -- Configuration of role groups for LDAP cfgLogging -- Group Description for group cfgLogging cfgStandardSchema -- Configuration of AD standard schema settings cfgIpmiSerial -- Properties to configure the IPMI serial interface cfgIpmiSol -- Configuration the SOL capabilities of the system cfgIpmiLan -- Configuration the IPMI over LAN of the system cfgIpmiPef -- Configuration the platform event filters cfgServerPower -- Provides power management features cfgServerPowerSupply -- Provides information related to the power supplies cfgVFlashSD -- Configure the properties for the vFlash SD card cfgVFlashPartition -- Configure partitions on the vFlash SD Card cfgUserDomain -- Configure the Active Directory user domain names cfgSmartCard -- Properties to access iDRAC using a smart card cfgServerInfo -- Configuration of first boot device cfgSensorRedundancy -- Configure the power supply redundancy cfgLanNetworking -- Parameters to configure the iDRAC NIC cfgStaticLanNetworking -- Parameters to configure the iDRAC NIC cfgNetTuning -- Group Description for group cfgNetTuning cfgIPv6LanNetworking -- Configuration of the IPv6 over LAN networking cfgIPv6StaticLanNetworking -- Configuration of the IPv6 over LAN networking cfgIPv6URL -- Configuration of the iDRAC IPv6 URL.
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