<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi Rahul,</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>[of course, maybe some of my settings are naiive or erronous; feel<br>free to correct me]<br></div></blockquote>OK</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>I can pretty much remote monitor logs, stats, remote power reset etc.<br>The only two things I cannot:<br><br>(1) Can't do a Serial-on-LAN (SOL); My Dell server needs a special<br>card (read more money) for this function. That is unfortunate.<br></div></blockquote><div>What server? If you have Power Control via IPMI SoL is there (at least anything less than 3 years old. Hopefully it's just ipmitool recompile as others suggested... all the prebuilt packages I've ever used had it.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>(2)Can't mod the BIOS settings or even dump them. Is there a way to<br>modify the BIOS settings via. IPMI (in general)<br><br></div></blockquote><div>Dell provides for cmd line changing of almost all BIOS/RAID/Remote Access Card settings via their own tool, omconfig. Proprietary, yes. Works, yes. Avoid all the gui stuff during the installation with a couple install flags and the command line "omconfig", "omreport" are very scriptable. Industry standard, if you're Dell :) Googling for either will get you straight to the command line reference:</div><div><a href="http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/svradmin/1.9/en/cli/cli_cc7c.htm#1093458">http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/svradmin/1.9/en/cli/cli_cc7c.htm#1093458</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers!</div><div>Greg</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>