Hi friends and gurus,

I would like to knoe the hardware related commands,
for example in HP hardware,

# hpasmcli> SHOW POWERSUPPLY
the above command will provide server powersupply status,
is any body having experiene using hardware commands for Dell and IBM hardware, these are more useful for unix SA's those who are supporting remotely.

Please any help is appreciated

Thanks & Regards
JNReddy

Jnreddy,

Most Linux distros don't include the proprietary applications used to get/set information on those machines.
You can use the 'dmidecode' application, which might be included with your distro (if not, check your package manager repos, or download here: http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/), to get BIOS level information about your system. Dmidecode will work on any machine that uses BIOS or EFI, regardless of manufacturer.

As for Dell:
I myself administrate a cluster of Dell R410's, and Dell provides a set of application for monitoring their specific hardware, and even changing BIOS and BMC settings. It's called Dell OpenManage, and it's available here: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/OMSA

The wiki should give you straightforward instructions on how install and use, but to just get system information, you can use the 'omreport' utility included with OpenManage.

- ZenKen

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Hi ZenKen,

Thanks for your information,you have provided very important thing,Dell Openmanager is a monitoring tool, do we need to buy any licences for DOM,will it work for all DELL hardware.for IBM we have IBM Director.

Thanks
JNReddy

Jnreddy,

OMSA, the OpenManage Server Administrator, it is free of charge and provided by Dell, and should work on all but the oldest hardware that Dell provides.

- ZenKen

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Thank You ZenKen for providing helpful information..


Thanks
JNReddy