topic Re: Query Blade or Blade Server Chassis in BladeSystem - General

Query Blade or Blade Server Chassis

John Remillard — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:50:09 GMT

Hi All
We have many Blade Chassis in our datacenter and i was wondering if there was a way to query a blade to find out what chassis it is in or if there is a way to query the chassis to display all the blades that are in it. I would like to get the information to populate a web page that would allow us to go directly to the blade for remote management.

Re: Query Blade or Blade Server Chassis

Torsten. — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:08:46 GMT

Sooo many ways to achieve this.

One out of this is to let the OA generate a configuration script. This will tell you almost "everything" about the system.

For example:

...
>SHOW ENCLOSURE INFO

Enclosure Information:
Enclosure Name: xxxx
Enclosure Type: BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure
Onboard Administrator Hardware Version: 1.00
Part Number: 412152-B21
Serial Number: xxx
UUID: xxx
Asset Tag:
Midplane Spare Part Number: 414050-001
Power Distribution Unit:
PDU Type: HP AC Module, Single Phase
PDU Spare Part Number: 413494-001
Onboard Administrator Tray Information:
Type: HP BladeSystem c7000 Onboard Administrator Tray
Spare Part Number: 416000-001
Serial Number: xxx

...

Server Blade #1 Information:
Type: Server Blade
Manufacturer: hp
Product Name: server BL860c
Part Number: AD217A
System Board Spare Part Number: AD217-60001
Serial Number: xxx
Server Name: [Unknown]
Asset Tag: [Unknown]
ROM Version: ROM A 3.01
EFI Version: 6.20

CPU 1: Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 1400 MHz
CPU 2: Not present
Memory: 2048 MB

Embedded Ethernet
NIC 1 MAC Address: 00:1A:4B:xxx
NIC 2 MAC Address: 00:1A:4B:xxx
NIC 3 MAC Address: 00:1A:4B:xxx
NIC 4 MAC Address: 00:1A:4B:xxx

Management Processor Information:
Type: Integrity iLO 2
Name: mp00xxx
Firmware Version: 2.17
BMC Version: 5.20
IP Address: 10.0.2.19
MAC Address: 00:19:BB:xxx

...

Re: Query Blade or Blade Server Chassis

Raghuarch — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:19:04 GMT

Re: Query Blade or Blade Server Chassis

JKytsi — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:30:21 GMT

ILO2 shows the blade location in enclosure/rack information too.

If You are familiar with the ILO command line

GET_RACK_SETTINGS return messages
A possible GET_RACK_SETTINGS return message is:

Re: Query Blade or Blade Server Chassis

Kase — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:05:11 GMT

If you don't feel like parsing out the OA configuration output, consider that the Report Designer in SIM can provide very customized reports on enclosure capacity and configuration. I believe this is the preferred method.