We have been having some issues with some Dell servers and we were asked to provide a dset output for one of them. Of course the new version 3.2 does not run directly under CentOS 6.2, however as RHEL is supported then it should work. This is the steps I took to get it to work:-
1. wget [ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/FOLDER00481758M/1/dell-dset-3.2.0.141_x64_A01.bin](ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/FOLDER00481758M/1/dell-dset-3.2.0.141_x64_A01.bin) 2. mkdir dell #used to keep the extracted contents 3. This binary does a lot of checking to see that it is to be run on a supported system, unfortunately CentOS is not one of them.
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This was the first event I had been to. Inspiring, that’s how it should be. First up was a talk about scriptrock. This looks like an interesting tool although it relies on Java being installed on each of the machines it runs or tests. It is a tool to allow tests on infrastructure to be written from various teams and then run automatically. Thereby, eliminating the costly manual testing of a new roll out.
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