Comments on: Lenny on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 http://www.adriansilva.org/2009/03/13/lenny-on-dell-poweredge-2950/ Skins and patches Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:46:57 -0700 hourly 1 By: skiold http://www.adriansilva.org/2009/03/13/lenny-on-dell-poweredge-2950/comment-page-1/#comment-150 skiold Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:46:00 +0000 http://www.adriansilva.org/?p=267#comment-150 @Bill LCD is supposed to talk ipmi. I installed some of the pre-requisites (ipmitool,openipmi, and the ipmi_si module) but had little sucess with my experiments. Clearly my ipmi setup is faulty. Other example of brokeness: snmp gets performance data from the ipmi subsystem and I've got no perf data from snmp. The two resources I found most helpful were: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Dell_PowerEdge_2950_III#IPMI http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/341 Good luck. Please, comment back if you are able to update your LCD :-) @Bill LCD is supposed to talk ipmi. I installed some of the pre-requisites (ipmitool,openipmi, and the ipmi_si module) but had little sucess with my experiments.

Clearly my ipmi setup is faulty. Other example of brokeness: snmp gets performance data from the ipmi subsystem and I’ve got no perf data from snmp.

The two resources I found most helpful were:

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Dell_PowerEdge_2950_III#IPMI
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/341

Good luck. Please, comment back if you are able to update your LCD :-)

]]> By: Bill Gatliff http://www.adriansilva.org/2009/03/13/lenny-on-dell-poweredge-2950/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Bill Gatliff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:58:00 +0000 http://www.adriansilva.org/?p=267#comment-149 I have a PowerEdge 1950, and would love to know more about how to update the LCD display. Any news? I have a PowerEdge 1950, and would love to know more about how to update the LCD display. Any news?

]]> By: Can Burak Cilingir http://www.adriansilva.org/2009/03/13/lenny-on-dell-poweredge-2950/comment-page-1/#comment-131 Can Burak Cilingir Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:53:00 +0000 http://www.adriansilva.org/?p=267#comment-131 I was about to blame debian :) Thanks, I'm now giving this tip a try. I was about to blame debian :)

Thanks, I’m now giving this tip a try.

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