Can we please finally solve Dell's racadm for FreeBSD? Advice needed

[Doug Ambrisko]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 11:44:14AM +0100, Vincent Hoffman-Kazlauskas wrote:
| for a quick tl;dr
| kldload ipmi
| pkg install freeipmi ipmitool
| dmidecode --string  system-product-name
| PowerEdge R420
| [root at brittlestar ~]# ipmi-sensors | head -4
| ID  | Name             | Type                     | Reading    | Units |
| Event
| 1   | SEL              | Event Logging Disabled   | N/A        | N/A   | N/A
| 2   | Intrusion        | Physical Security        | N/A        | N/A   |
| 'OK'
| 11  | Fan1A            | Fan                      | 6240.00    | RPM   |
| 'OK'
| 
| 
| or for an r210
| root at helios:~ # ipmi-sensors | grep -i intr
| 31 | Intrusion        | Physical Security        | N/A        | N/A   | 'OK'
| 
| see also the rest of the freeipmi utils and maybe ipmitool for a
| different interface (I prefer it for some uses)

FYI, Dell used to send patches to the ipmitool project for various extra
things they had such as changing text on the LCD etc.  I forget if they
ever got checked into ipmitool.  They would send it to the mailing list.
I haven't delt with Dell machines for a long time ... working more with
Cisco UCS machines.

Doug A.