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Category: BMC

  • unpacking Dell’s iDRAC schtuff

    I hadn’t look at Dell’s iDRAC stuff in forever… and it appeared they’d changed some of the formatting of the iDRAC updates/etc. since then. I didn’t see anything out there, so here’s what I used. First, grab an update – for instance, at – https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=wn31m – I grabbed “iDRAC-with-Lifecycle-Controller_Firmware_WN31M_LN64_7.20.30.50_A00.BIN” On the windows EXE file at…

  • Even more IPMI, woohoo!

    I wrote a small paper surveying the scene of IPMI in the wild – Sold Down the River – the title of which might give you some clue as to make on the situation. Used to be folks used guns to rob us… computers make everything so much easier!

  • Booting a dell server from a remote ISO image

    This is in various scripts and snippets, but I didn’t see it simply by itself…. People sometimes ask me how to reboot a server and boot it off a remote image via the BMC. Dell’s BMC (that little chip that runs IPMI and other things) can speak DMTF/WSMAN/etc/etc, like just about all the servers in…