This blog post was originally written by Aditi Satam and Syama Poluri. Send your suggestions or comments to WinServerBlogs@dell.com.
The Dell PowerEdge VRTX is a shared infrastructure platform offering outstanding performance and capacity with office-level acoustics in a single, compact tower chassis. It is designed for small and midsize branch offices and offers simplified management.
Dell Chassis Management Controller (CMC) helps manage, monitor, configure and deploy different hardware components in Dell PowerEdge VRTX Solution. It lets you access all the iDRACs of all the server nodes as well. Thus, It provides a holistic remote management capability that allows you to manage the solution from anywhere at any time irrespective of the status of the Operating System.
PowerShell 3.0 is the new version in Windows Server 2012. It is installed by default in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. The CIM Cmdlets in PowerShell 3.0 allow seamless communication with any device that supports the DMTF standards - CIM and WSMAN or DCOM. PowerShell 4.0, which is a part of Windows Server 2012 R2 /Windows 8.1, also supports the CIM Cmdlets that were first introduced in PowerShell 3.0.
Integration of PowerShell in Windows Server 2012 / 2012 R2 along with Dell iDRAC7 provides a rich set of remote management capabilities on the VRTX solution. You can install either Windows Management Framework 3.0 or Windows Management Framework 4.0 on your Windows 2008 R2+ or Windows 7 client systems and begin remote managing the Servers!
There may be a case where you have setup a remote desktop session to one of the node’s Operating systems (OS) from your management station. Now, if you need to quickly get to the CMC to manage any of the components then you can do so by retrieving the CMC IP Address in-band from within the OS.
This post focuses retrieving CMC IP Address via In-Band mechanism. This script uses the IPMI functionality that comes native within the OS.
The script illustrates In-band retrieval of CMC IP Address. Please see the attached script VRTX_CMCIPAddress.ps1. Click here to download.
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