Dell Drac 5 User Guide

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Sensors
Hardware sensors or probes help you to monitor the systems on your network 
in a more efficient way by enabling you to take appropriate actions to prevent 
disasters, such as system instability or damage.
You can use the DRAC 5 to monitor hardware sensor for batteries, fan 
probes, chassis intrusion, power supplies, power consumed, temperature, 
and voltages.
Battery Probes
The Battery probes provide information about the system board CMOS and 
storage RAM on motherboard (ROMB)...

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Power Supplies Probes
The power supplies probes provides information on:
• status of the power supplies, whether within the normal threshold value or 
has crossed threshold value.
 NOTE: You can set threshold values only from the Dell OpenManage Server 
Administrator. See the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator User’s Guide 
for more information.
• power supply redundancy, that is, the ability of the redundant power 
supply to replace the primary power supply if the primary power supply...

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Graph Information
The Graph Information page displays the graphs for the system power level 
in Watts and power supplies in Amperes over a time period. The page auto 
refreshes every minute.
 NOTE: The data is obtained by the DRAC 5 every five minutes and is lost after a 
DRAC reset, AC power cycle, or a firmware update.
 
NOTE: The graphs may display gaps either when the system is powered down or 
when the BMC resets. This is because the power sensors are unavailable during 
this period....

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Power Statistics
The Power Statistics page displays the average power consumption and the 
maximum and the minimum power consumption statistics for the system in 
Watts and BTU/Hr (British Thermal Unit per Hour) over the last 1 hour, 
1 day, or 1 week from the current DRAC time. The data is obtained by the 
DRAC 5 and is reset if the DRAC undergoes a reset for any reason.
Temperature Probes
The temperature sensor provides information about the system board 
ambient temperature. The temperature...

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RACADM Subcommand Overview
This section provides descriptions of the subcommands that are available in the 
RACADM command line interface.
help
 NOTE: To use this command, you must have Log In DRAC 5 permission. 
Table A-1 describes the help command.
Synopsis
racadm help
racadm help 
Description
The help subcommand lists all of the subcommands that are available when 
using the 
racadm command along with a one-line description. You may also type 
a subcommand after 
help...

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arp
 NOTE: To use this command, you must have Execute Diagnostic Commands 
permission. 
Table A-2 describes the arp command.
Synopsis
racadm arp
Supported Interfaces
• Remote RACADM
• Telnet/SSH/Serial RACADM
clearasrscreen
 NOTE: To use this command, you must have Clear Logs permission.
Table A-3 describes the clearasrscreen subcommand.
Synopsis
racadm clearasrscreen
Supported Interfaces
•Local RACADM
• Remote RACADM
• Telnet/SSH/Serial RACADM
Table A-2. arp Command
Command...

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config
 NOTE: To use the getconfig command, you must have Log In DRAC 5 permission.
Table A-4 describes the config and getconfig subcommands.
Synopsis
racadm config [-c|-p] -f 
racadm config -g  -o  [-i 
] 
Supported Interfaces
•Local RACADM
• Remote RACADM
• Telnet/SSH/Serial RACADM
Description
The config subcommand allows the user to set DRAC 5 configuration 
parameters individually or to batch them as part of a configuration file. If the 
data is different, that DRAC 5...

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Output
This subcommand generates error output upon encountering either of the 
following:
• Invalid syntax, group name, object name, index, or other invalid database 
members
• RACADM CLI failures
This subcommand returns an indication of how many configuration objects that 
were written out of how many total objects were in the 
.cfg file.
Table A-5. config Subcommand Options and Descriptions
Option Description
-fThe -f 
 option causes config to read the contents of the file...

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Examples
•racadm config -g cfgLanNetworking -o 
cfgNicIpAddress 10.35.10.100
 
Sets the cfgNicIpAddress configuration parameter (object) to the value 
10.35.10.110. This IP address object is contained in the group 
cfgLanNetworking.
•
racadm config -f myrac.cfg 
Configures or reconfigures the DRAC 5. The myrac.cfg file may be created 
from the 
getconfig command. The myrac.cfg file may also be edited 
manually as long as the parsing rules are followed.
 NOTE: The myrac.cfg...

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Output
This subcommand generates error output upon encountering either of the 
following:
• Invalid syntax, group name, object name, index, or other invalid database 
members
• racadm CLI transport failures
Table A-6. getconfig Subcommand Options
Option Description
-fThe -f 
 option directs getconfig to write the entire RAC 
configuration to a configuration file. This file can be used for batch 
configuration operations using the config subcommand. 
NOTE: The -f option does...