Users Guide

You can use remote RACADM commands in scripts to congure multiple CMCs. CMC does not have support for scripting. Therefore, you

cannot run the scripts directly on the CMC.

For more information about RACADM, see the Chassis Management Controller for Dell PowerEdge M1000e RACADM Command Line

Reference Guide.

For more information about conguring multiple CMCs, see Conguring Multiple CMCs Using RACADM.

Logging in to CMC Using Public Key Authentication

You can log in to the CMC over SSH without entering a password. You can also send a single RACADM command as a command line

argument to the SSH application. The command line options behave similar to remote RACADM because the session ends after the

command is completed.

Before logging in to CMC over SSH, make sure that the public keys are uploaded.

For example:

• Logging in: ssh service@<domain> or ssh service@<IP_address> where IP_address is the CMC IP address.

• Sending RACADM commands: ssh service@<domain> racadm getversion and ssh service@<domain> racadm

getsel

When you log in using the service account, if a passphrase was set up when creating the public or private key pair, you may be prompted to

enter that passphrase again. If a passphrase is used with the keys, both Windows and Linux clients provide methods to automate that as

well. For Windows clients, you can use the Pageant application. It runs in the background and makes entering the passphrase transparent.

For Linux clients, you can use the sshagent. For setting up and using either of these applications, see the documentation provided from

that application.