setting of First Boot Device via commandline

Question

I am trying to set boot devices via racadm commands on the CMC. I can attach an image, however unless I have manually set VirtualCD to be my primary boot device, the blade will boot off the hard drive. Many resources recommend ipmitool to change bios boot devices remotely, however I can only find Linux distributions. How do I set the boot device via ssh/commandline on Windows?

krutain · Answer

The blades are M610s in an M1000e chassis...

krutain · Answer

I am investigating the Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit

nadogmoney · Answer

To PXE boot a system once, we log in to the idrac (not CMC) via ssh and run the following commands:

racadm config -g cfgServerInfo -o cfgServerBootOnce 1

racadm config -g cfgServerInfo -o cfgServerFirstBootDevice PXE

racadm serveraction powercycle

I would assume you can make this boot once to the VirtualCD also.

If you want ipmi tool for windows check out Dell's repackage version called BMC Utility:

www.dell.com/.../poweredge-r620

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