Dell PowerEdge C Server System Management

PowerEdge firmware scrapers

PE-C_fw    PE-13G_fw    PE-12G_fw    PE-11G_fw    PE-10G_fw    PE-9G_fw    PE-8G_fw    PowerVault   

See also: Old, simple firmware PowerEdge C scraper (may still be useful at times).


Direct links to support.dell.com pages, per platform

C1100    C2100    C5125    C5220    C6100    C6105    C6220    C6145    C8000    C410X   

Quick Start Guide

See also: Quick Start Guide. A very short technical resource to get you up and running quickly.

System Management Pack

See also: System Management Pack. All PE-C tools, bundled. Also available separately:

ldstate 2013-11-23 tgz rpm changelog quickly see health/config of every storage device in the system. why does this help?
bmc tool 2014-10-15 tgz rpm changelog configure and monitor the bmc. wraps ipmitool; makes it scriptable and 1-to-many.
setupbios 2013-10-03 tgz rpm changelog BIOS config tool; set or diff settings from the command line; fan-out to cluster.
ipmiflash 2013-02-11 tgz rpm changelog direct remote BMCs to flash update BIOS, BMC, FCB firmware
pecagent 2013-02-11 tgz rpm changelog SNMP agent; monitors using bmc and ldstate.
pec-logs 2014-09-23 tgz changelog hopefully nothing goes wrong... but if it does, this tool will help debug.
pxe image tgz preconfigured PXE/USB OS image that you can easily extend for discovery/provisioning.

The PowerEdge-C Tools & System Management mailing list is a good place for support on these.

Webinar deck on system management, presented early 2012. Offers both a Cloud Computing philosophy, and the specifics regarding how to implement.

PowerEdge C System Management Overview

See also: High level overview.

PXE image

See also: PXE image. A network-bootable, provisioning PXE image is offered. This is a known, good image that all of the tools work in. The image contains simple, BASH and Perl script based methods of:

C410X validation image

Refer to the C410X validation image which includes tools and instructions for putting it on a USB stick.

Or, alternatively, just browse all available files, including historical.


Direct links to the various support.dell.com pages, per platform

C1100    C2100    C5125    C5220    C6100    C6105    C6220    C6145    C8000    C410X