I completely understand your concerns. Our initial focus was attempting to get the one-to-one interface developed as this gave us both a customer facing deliverable and a test bed for this technology.
As I've now said in the other part of this thread. You should look at the latest Unified Server Configurator and DRAC for your system. In this release we enabled remote firmware update through the DRAC WSMAN interface. More information is available in the user's guide, which is here: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smusc/smlc/lc_1_3/en/index.htm -----Original Message----- From: Tim Small [mailto:t...@seoss.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 4:10 AM To: Boyd, Patrick Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: Re: Lifecycle Controller not-so slick IMO. patrick_b...@dell.com wrote: > By Console Redirection we mean serial port console redirection. The interface > works fine over the iDRAC virtual KVM. This was decided since the Lifecycle > Controller uses a graphical interface. > I take it from this that it's can't be automated - that really seems to be a short-sighted design decision - the majority of shops who have more than a handful of servers will want to automate this sort of stuff - that and the fact that it's a paid-for extra means that there is very little value-add for all the development effort that must have been carried out... The real answer has to be proper publishing of specs for firmware update interfaces - Dell RBU is an excellent example of doing things the right way, but without being able to update hard disk and BMC firmware easily from within Linux, it looks like wasted effort. And when I say Linux I mean any kernel or distribution, not just whatever enterprise vendors Dell happens to currently have their wagons hitched to. Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309 _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
