Getting ambient temperature from iDRAC

what command are you trying and what do you get in response?

/admin1-> racadm getconfig -g cfgServerTemperature
ERROR: Invalid group name specified.

The same command works with cfgServerPower instead of cfgServerTemperature.  My notes say the command comes from the racadm manual on page 246.

Thanks for your help.

I must admit, I cant find the cfgServerTemp command anywhere, I have gone back 4 versions of the users guides and racadm commands. Do you have a link to the manual where it shows this command?

I can't find it either.  Let me apologize, I may have sent you on a false trail.  There is a command cfgServerPower (pg 248 of my manual version 1.1), and I may have just made up cfgServerTemperature to see if there was something undocumented.

Clearly the temperature is available because I can see it on the web interface, but I need a simple way to get it so I can write a script.  Is there anything like that I can use?

Thanks for your quick responses.

Truck

First, you would do better to look at the documentation version appropriate for your system and iDRAC firmware revision.

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smdrac3/idrac/index.htm

Second, I dug through the documentation, and I don't see a way to pull temperature information using racadm unless you are dealing with a CMC rather than an iDRAC 6, which is on the monolithic servers like a T310, R610, and so on.  You might be able to do it with an IPMI utility, but I'm not sure.

Perhaps this will work for you. This is the same information shown in the idrac gui

omreport chassis temps

>> JeffLM

Thanks.  I have the 1.1 documentation which seems to be the same SM CLP version as the iDRAC card gives me.  I'll see what IPMI gets me.

>> Reybeast

I tried the command and this is what I got:

/admin1-> omreport chassis temps
cmdstat
        status       : 2
        status_tag   : COMMAND PROCESSING FAILED
        error        : 253
        error_tag    : COMMAND NOT RECOGNIZED
/admin1-> racadm omreport chassis temps
ERROR: Invalid subcommand specified.

Am I missing something?

Thanks to both of you for putting up with me, this is one of those, "there has to be a way to do it" kinds of problems that I've been beating my head against for quite some time and getting nowhere.

Truck

This worked great for me.

Thanks for the solution.

I didn't use racadm before the command, just simple:

omreport chassis temps

to get server temperature from idrac, you have to enable IPMI and use Dell OpenManage Power Center from a console

en.community.dell.com/.../3534.dell-openmanage-power-center.aspx

to get server temperature from localhost, you have to install Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (on server) and type "omreport chassis temps" from command line