Black Box LES1108A, User Manual

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for FRU locators
sel Print System Event Log (SEL)
pef Configure Platform Event Filtering
(PEF)
sol Configure IPMIv2.0 Serial-over-LAN
isol Configure IPMIv1.5 Serial-over-LAN
user Configure Management Controller
users
channel Configure Management Controller
channels
session Print session information
exec Run list of commands from file
set Set runtime variable for shell and
exec
ipmitool chassis help
Chassis Commands: status, power, identify, policy, restart_cause, poh, bootdev
ipmitool chassis power help
chassis power Commands: status, on, off, cycle, reset, diag, soft
You will find more details on ipmitools at http:// ipmitool .sourceforge.net/manpage.html
15.11 Custom Development Kit (CDK)
As detailed in this manual customers can copy scripts, binaries, and configuration files directly to the
console server .
Black Box also freely provides a development kit that allows changes to be made to the software in
console server firmware image. The customer can use the CDK to:
 generate a firmware image without certain programs, such as telnet, which may be banned by
company policy.

generate an image with new programs, such as custom Nagios plug-in binaries or company specific
binary utilities.
 generate an image with custom defaults e.g. it may be required that the console server be configured
to have a specific default serial port profile which is reverted to even in event of a factory reset.
 place configuration files into the firmware image, which cannot then be modified e.g. # /bin/config –-
set= tools update the configuration files in /etc/config which are read/write, whereas the files in /etc
are read only and cannot be modified
The CDK essentially provides a snapshot of the Black Box build process (taken after the programs have
been compiled and copied to a temporary directory
romfs ) just before the compressed file systems are
generated. You can obtain a copy of the Black Box CDK for the particular appliance you are working with
from Black Box
Note The CDK is free.