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May 8th, 2020 06:00
Determine idrac major version with idracadm tool
Hello all. I suspect this is covered in some document somewhere but I cannot find out how. We have many blades, some are idrac 7 and some are idrac 8. Using the idracadm tool, the getversion command only gives me a numbered version like 2.50.50 etc... how do I know if we are dealing with a v8 or a v7 idrac?
Thanks in advance
DELL-Shine K
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May 8th, 2020 07:00
You can run below command
racadm get idrac.info
"ServerGen" field of the output will say whether it is a 12G or 13G server. All 12G are iDRAC 7 and all 13G are iDRAC8.
Origin3k
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May 8th, 2020 07:00
For sure you can use SNMP to fetch this kind of information because thats what i do here. But be warned.. it works very well for 11-13Gen. Servers but the latest one (14.) only returns "iDRAC"
Regards,
Joerg
wienerdogfan
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May 8th, 2020 08:00
So to be clear, my idrac 8 server profile template can be applied to an idrac 9 server interface without any swear words? All we change are the ldap / alert / dns type of settings.
Thanks, huge help.
DELL-Shine K
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May 8th, 2020 08:00
FC640 is iDRAC 9 only. Templates (Server Configuration Profile) will be backward compatible between various iDRAC generations. There will be new features and attributes in newer generation iDRAC (E.g. iDRAC 9) templates compared to older generation iDRAC (E.g. iDRAC
wienerdogfan
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May 8th, 2020 08:00
Jeeeez, would it kill them to just put idrac8 or idrac7?
Ok thank you, that call works perfectly. Do you know if there are many differences in the idrac templates between 7 and 8? I think we will have idrac 9's soon too. I think our new FC640's are idrac 9? Not sure. We deploy all our blades using templates.
Thanks in advance
wienerdogfan
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May 8th, 2020 08:00
Thanks, but our code (run via ansible) doesn't use snmp.
wienerdogfan
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May 8th, 2020 08:00
btw. I was in Jaipur / Delhi / Agra a few months ago. Absolutely loved it. Beautiful country and people.
Origin3k
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May 8th, 2020 11:00
IIRC there was a post about the same just a week ago but i dont find it any more.
But... take a look to https://www.dell.com/community/Systems-Management-General/Determine-DRAC-version-from-RACADM/td-p/4394174
It looks that there is a very granular method to find out the iDRAC Generation and also if your dealing with a blade or rack server.
Regards,
Joerg