Hardware

Some useful links to explain the concepts of Hardware (Dell / SuperMicro)

Dell OMSA

Concepts

Commands

  • We use 2 commands to monitor / change parameters in Dell servers

1omreport - Checks the server details via specified parameters.
2
3omconfig - Modifies the server details via specified parameters.

Examples :

  • Will list all possibly available system / chassis / storage domain commands

1sudo omreport system -?  | omreport chassis -?  | omreport storage -?
  • Retrieve general system information

1sudo omreport system summary | less
  • Display the Hardware logs

1sudo omreport system esmlog
  • Retrieve the RAID configuration

1sudo omreport storage vdisk controller=0
  • Clearing the logs

1sudo omconfig system esmlog action=clear (Replace esmlog with alertlog or cmdlog, esmlog is the hardware log)

Configuration

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