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).
C1100 | C2100 | C5125 | C5220 | C6100 | C6105 | C6220 | C6145 | C8000 | C410X |
See also: Quick Start Guide. A very short technical resource to get you up and running quickly.
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.
See also: High level overview.
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:
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.
C1100 | C2100 | C5125 | C5220 | C6100 | C6105 | C6220 | C6145 | C8000 | C410X |