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Is there a way to get Dell's LifeCycle Controller status from command line?

For instance, there's a way to schedule BIOS configuration, but there's no way to check afterwards whether those tasks have been applied.

Is there a way to use omreport or something alike to find out whether LifeCycle controller has tasks pending, i.e. machine could use a reboot?

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  • This is something I'd be working out with your Dell representative.
    – mdpc
    Nov 11, 2014 at 19:34
  • Why? These are all freely available tools, and yes, I can ask Dell the same, but how's that not fitting the generic sysadmin theme? It's not that Dell is that rare.
    – favoretti
    Nov 11, 2014 at 19:43
  • This is a totally valid question; not sure why the closevote/downvote.
    – mfinni
    Nov 11, 2014 at 20:25

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Using RACADM to hit the DRAC, you should be able to :

  1. Query the current BIOS level to see if it's what you want it to be

racadm get BIOS.SysInformation.SystemBiosVersion

  1. Review the LC log to see what's happened
racadm lclog view -i <number of records> -a <agent id> -c <category> -s <severity> -b <sub-category> -q <sequence no.> -n  <number of records> -r <start timestamp> -e <end timestamp>
  1. Look at any pending actions

racadm jobqueue view

You can run racadm from the local windows system, or from a management station; either way you have to be able to connect to the DRAC with the proper creds.

/Edit - of course, racadm is the BFMI (brute force massive ignorance) approach. If you like to code, you could hit the DRAC with WSMAN from your language of choice and play with the data/objects yourself.

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    But of course, racadm jobqueue, I'm just stupid. Thanks. Pity it's not very parseable, but that's the right direction :)
    – favoretti
    Nov 11, 2014 at 20:32
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    Added a more programming-y suggestion as well.
    – mfinni
    Nov 11, 2014 at 20:46
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Iwork4Dell. For older generations of servers the racadm commands for managing jobs may not be avaliable. On these systems you will need to use winrm or openwsman and the LC wsman interface. For more information and sample scripts refer to the Best Practices Guide on the http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/Lifecycle+Controller

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