Dell BMC Puppet Module

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bmc

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Module Description
3. Setup
   • What bmc affects
   • Setup requirements
   • Beginning with bmc
4. Usage
5. Reference
6. Limitations
7. Development

Overview

This puppet module is used for managing bare-metal servers with the BMC API

Module Description

Currently this module only suppoerts updating the bios firmware on BMC servers. (tested with ... #TODO)

Setup

Firmware update requirements

• BIOS firmware binary
• Tftp server that will share binaries
• IPMIFlash (installed in default location [/opt/dell/pec])
• IPMITool
• BMCTool (installed in default loaction [/opt/dell/pec])

Usage

bmc_fw_ipmiflash { "update":
        bmc_firmware => [{component_name => 'bios', version => '2.5.3', location => 'tftp://localhost/path/to/firmware.hdr'}],
        ensure       => present,
}

Reference

This Module Uses the following tools

• Baseboard Management Controller (http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q04-20040110-zhuo.pdf)
• IPMI Tool (http://linux.die.net/man/1/ipmitool)
• IPMI Flash

Limitations

This only supports a forced restart at this time.