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New Features and Usability Enhancements to RACADM Commands in iDRAC7

In general, RACADM commands use the set of generic options listed in Table 2.

RACADM command options Table 2.

Option

Usage

-f

Usually followed by a filename

-l

Followed by a share path (NFS/CIFS)

-u

Followed by a username

-p

Followed by a password

-s

Used for fetching the status of an operation

-t

Used to specify a transaction ID

-i

Used when the command has indices (iDRAC users)

Note: Refer to command specific help for exact syntaxes and possible switches. Table 2 lists generic

switch usage for most of the commands.

get and set

The get and set commands are based on the FQDD syntax. These new commands include the group

and object categorization for settings. The group categories for get include:

 iDRAC

 System

 LifecycleController

 BIOS

 NIC

hwinventory

This feature allows you to view or export current server hardware inventory or shipped hardware

inventory. To use this command, you must have login privileges. This command uses the following

syntax:

racadm>> hwinventory

racadm>> hwinventory NIC

racadm>> hwinventory NIC.Embedded.1-1-2

racadm>> hwinventory export -f <filename> -u <username>

-p <password> -l <CIFS or NFS share>

For Local RACADM, use:

$ racadm hwinventory export -f <filename>