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NOTE: The entered value must be lesser or higher than the sensor critical threshold
limit.
serveraction
Description Enables you to perform power management operations on the blade system.
To run this subcommand, you must have the Execute Server Control Commands
permission.
Synopsis
racadm serveraction <action> -f
Input
<action> — Specifies the power management operation to perform. The options are:
• hardreset — Performs a force reset (reboot) operation on the managed system.
• powercycle — Performs a power-cycle operation on the managed system. This
action is similar to pressing the power button on the system’s front panel to turn off
and then turn on the system.
• powerdown — Powers down the managed system.
• powerup — Powers up the managed system.
• powerstatus — Displays the current power status of the server (ON or OFF).
• graceshutdown — Performs a graceful shutdown of the server. If the operating
system on the server cannot shut down completely, then this operation is not
performed.
• -f — Force the server power management operation.
This option is applicable only for the PowerEdge-VRTX platform. It is used with
powerdown,powercycle, and hardreset options.
NOTE: The actionpowerstatus is not allowed with -a option.
Output Displays an error message if the requested operation is not completed, or a success
message if the operation is completed.
Example
Get Power Status on iDRAC
racadm serveraction powerstatus
Server Power Status: ON
racadm serveraction powercycle
Server power operation successful
set
Description Modifies the value of configuration objects on a device.
NOTE:
• For configuration of staged objects such as BIOS or NIC, commit and reboot
job creation must be used to apply the pending values. For more information,
see jobqueue.
• To run this subcommand for configuration xml file type, the Lifecycle Contoller
version 1.1 or later is required.
Synopsis
• racadm set -f <filename> [--continue]
• racadm set <FQDD Alias>.<group>.<index>.<object> <value>
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