PowerFlex ScaleIO VxRack: How to install ipmitool to get a TLA number

Windows OS: The IMPMI tool is part of the BMC utility.

BMC utility is available to download from the Dell Website. The link to download the BMC utility https://www.dell.com/support/home/in/en/indhs1/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=6MR62

Extract the file and install the package. Once Installation is complete, open the Elevated command prompt and go to the folder where ipmitool is installed in this example the path is >> C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\SysMgt\bmc.

To get the TLA number(Board Part Number), Service Tag(Chassis Serial) of the server run the command.

 ipmitool -I lanplus -H  -U root -P calvin fru print 17

Output is similar to. 

Linux OS:

To install the ipmitool software, run the following commands from a root shell:

Enterprise Linux 5.x/CentOS 5.x:

 #yum install OpenIPMI OpenIPMI-tools

Enterprise Linux 6.x/CentOS 6.x or Fedora:

 # yum install OpenIPMI ipmitool

Enterprise Linux 7.x/CentOS 7.x or Fedora:

 # yum install OpenIPMI ipmitool

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

 # apt-get install ipmitool

To enable IPMI access for non-Ubuntu distributions, run the following commands from a root shell:

 # /sbin/chkconfig ipmi on # service ipmi start

Ubuntu starts the daemon automatically.

Note: ipmitool is installed by default on SVMs (2.0.1.X and later)

To get the TLA number(Board Part Number), and Service Tag(Chassis Serial) of the server run the command on SVM.

 ipmitool -I lanplus -H -U root -P calvin fru print 17

Output is similar to.