Now that we have clarified that this isn't actually Dell confidential:
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 13:59 -0500, Praveen_Paladugu(a)Dell.com wrote:
Dell - Internal Use - Confidential
We want to somehow publish the Management Controller (BMC)
information, so that the user can query the same and get the details.
A CIM provider will be a good solution to publish this information. We
are primarily looking for a provider which publishes the “IP Address”
and the “URL” for accessing of the Management Controller (BMC).
I had some offline discussions with Klaus and we are considering
OOB_ManagementController class inheriting CIM_ManagementController.
This OOB_ManagementController class will have the common properties
like Network Address, Protocols supported etc.
The leaf class for example iDRAC_ManagementController will inherit
OOB_ManagementController, extract the related IP Address with the
right IPMI command and publish this information.
Does anyone have any inputs on the model we are considering?
Excellent idea. I assume that the initial implementation will be
targeting iDRAC. Would it make sense to structure the Provider to
discover and report on a general BMC? This would seem to involve
reporting:
* BMC manufacturer, make, model, revision, and firmware level.
* BMC IP address
* BMC URL
* And, of course, "No BMC found"...
What other information would be useful to know about a BMC?
Do we want to have a specific class for iDRAC or to have a general BMC
class that reports it found an iDRAC?
Do we want to do this as a standalone or as part of a larger class such
as Physical System View.
Thank you
Praveen K Paladugu
Dell Linux Engineering
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