Thank you
Praveen K Paladugu
Dell Linux Engineering

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openlmi-devel-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org [mailto:openlmi-
> devel-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org] On Behalf Of Russell Doty
> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 9:49 AM
> To: openlmi-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org
> Subject: Re: A provider for publishing Management Controller (Service
> Processor) information
>
> On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 16:39 -0500, Praveen_Paladugu@Dell.com wrote:
> > Thought I would have some information to get on this by now. I have a
> > lot more information (than I expected) to sort through and will need
> > quite a bit of time to sort through L.
> >
> >
> >
> > I don’t want to hold back this effort any longer. For now let us
> > proceed with implementing a generic class like
> > “BMC_ManagementController”. If we (Dell or other vendors)  see a need
> > to a have different class with attributes named differently or extend
> > the attributed for BMC class, we add a new class by inheriting the
> > BMC_ManagementController class.
> >
> > I am guessing the primary source for populating the BMC information
> > will be IPMI? Putting together the information from Russ and Klaus,
> > following seem to be attributes we want to capture:
> >
> > * BMC manufacturer, make, model, revision, and firmware level.
> >
> > * BMC IP address
> >
> > * BMC URL
> >
> > * Protocols Supported (This might be tough, will have to check if this
> > info is exported via IPMI)
> >
> Looks like a good start to me. I would suggest building a basic provider with
> this information and making it available, then seeing what else people need.
>
> Russ
> >
> >
> > Some more properties looking at the iDARC Class
> >
> > ·         Fully Qualified Domain Name, if applicable
> >
> > ·         LANStateEnabled or Disabled?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you
> > Praveen K Paladugu
> > Dell Linux Engineering
> >
> >
> >
> >
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