Black Box LES1132A Custom Development Kit CDK, Scripts for Managing Slaves, Ipmitool chassis help

channels

session Print session information

exec Run list of commands from file

set Set runtime variable for shell and exec

ipmitool chassis help

Chassis Commands: status, power, identify, policy, restart_cause, poh, bootdev

ipmitool chassis power help

chassis power Commands: status, on, off, cycle, reset, diag, soft

You will find more details on ipmitools at http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net/manpage.html

15.11 Custom Development Kit (CDK)

As detailed in this manual customers can copy scripts, binaries, and configuration files directly to the console server.

Black Box also freely provides a development kit that allows changes to be made to the software in console server firmware image. The customer can use the CDK to:

generate a firmware image without certain programs, such as telnet, which may be banned by company policy.

generate an image with new programs, such as custom Nagios plug-in binaries or company specific binary utilities.

generate an image with custom defaults e.g. it may be required that the console server be configured to have a specific default serial port profile which is reverted to even in event of a factory reset.

place configuration files into the firmware image, which cannot then be modified e.g. # /bin/config –- set= tools update the configuration files in /etc/config which are read/write, whereas the files in /etc are read only and cannot be modified

The CDK essentially provides a snapshot of the Black Box build process (taken after the programs have been compiled and copied to a temporary directory romfs) just before the compressed file systems are generated. You can obtain a copy of the Black Box CDK for the particular appliance you are working with from Black Box

Note The CDK is free.

15.12 Scripts for Managing Slaves

When the console servers are cascaded the Master is in control of the serial ports on the Slaves, and the Master’s Management Console provides a consolidated view of the settings for its own and all the Slave’s serial ports. The Master does not provide a fully consolidated view, for example, Status: Active Users only displays those users active on the Master’s ports and you will need to write a custom bash script that parses the port logs if you want to find out who’s logged in to cascaded serial ports from the master.

You will probably also want to enable remote or USB logging, because local logs only buffer 8K of data and don’t persist between reboots.

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