Using omreport and omconfig for Dell servers

Dell comes with their server utility scripts called omreport and omconfig. These tools allow you to view and modify your hardware configuration on the server.

Dell tools information

To see what version of the tools your running:

[[email protected] ~]# omreport about details=true

To see if there are updates available for the firmware:

[[email protected] ~]# omreport system version

To see what commands are available using omreport:

[[email protected] ~]# omreport system -?

General information

To view information regarding the server model, cpu type, memory, service tags, etc, run:

[[email protected] ~]# omreport system summary

Hardware Health

If you want to view the health of the system and chassis components, run:

[[email protected] ~]# omreport system

To only get the health information for the chassis:

[[email protected] ~]# omreport chassis

The chassis can also only return specific components, such as:

[[email protected] ~]# omreport chassis fans
[[email protected] ~]# omreport chassis memory
[[email protected] ~]# omreport chassis nics
[[email protected] ~]# omreport chassis processors
[[email protected] ~]# omreport chassis temps
[[email protected] ~]# omreport chassis batteries
[[email protected] ~]# omreport chassis pwrsupplies

Storage health

As a quick note, if the commands below report there are no controllers listed, check to be sure that the software is actually running by:

[[email protected] ~]# /opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/srvadmin-services.sh status
dell_rbu (module) is stopped
ipmi driver is running
dsm_sa_datamgrd is stopped
dsm_sa_eventmgrd is stopped
dsm_sa_snmpd is stopped
dsm_om_shrsvcd is stopped
dsm_om_connsvcd is stopped
[roo[email protected] ~]# /opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/srvadmin-services.sh restart

To view the physical and virtual disks on the server:

[[email protected] ~]# omreport storage pdisk controller=0
[[email protected] ~]# omreport storage vdisk controller=0
[[email protected] ~]# omreport storage pdisk controller=0 vdisk=0

If you just wanted a quick listing of the relevant disk information to see the state of the drives, run:

[[email protected] ~]# omreport storage pdisk controller=0 | grep -iE "^id|^status|name|state|Failure Predicted"
ID                              : 0:0:0
Status                          : Ok
Name                            : Physical Disk 0:0:0
State                           : Online
Failure Predicted               : No
ID                              : 0:0:1
Status                          : Ok
Name                            : Physical Disk 0:0:1
State                           : Online
Failure Predicted               : No

To see if there are any empty drive bays on the server:

[[email protected] ~]# omreport storage controller controller=0 info=pdslotreport | grep 'Empty Slots'

To see the storage battery status:

[[email protected] ~]# omreport storage battery controller=0

Hardware Logs

To display the hardware logs, run:

[[email protected] ~]# omreport system esmlog

If you need to view the alert logs:

[[email protected] ~]# omreport system alertlog

And if you needed to view the messages from the POST:

[[email protected] ~]# omreport system postlog

If you find you need to clear the logs, that can be performed by:

[[email protected] ~]# omconfig system esmlog action=clear
[[email protected] ~]# omconfig system alertlog action=clear
[[email protected] ~]# omconfig system postlog action=clear

CPU actions

To see if hyperthreading is enabled on the CPUs:

[[email protected] ~]# omreport chassis biossetup | grep -A 2 'HyperThreading'

If you wanted to enable hyperthreading:

# Dell R710
[[email protected] ~]# omconfig chassis biossetup attribute=cpuht setting=enabled

# Dell R720
[[email protected] ~]# omconfig chassis biossetup attribute=ProcCores setting=All

If you needed to enable or disable NUMA:

# Disable NUMA:
[[email protected] ~]# omconfig chassis biossetup attribute=numa setting=disabled

# Enable NUMA:
[[email protected] ~]# omconfig chassis biossetup attribute=numa setting=enabled