Category: Dell PowerEdge

September 11, 2013

Dell DSET on CentOS

Those of you unfortunate enough to have encountered the Dell technical suport department will know their love for the Dell diagnostic tools. Those of you who run CentOS and have been asked for a DSET report (Dell System E-Support Tool) will also know that the DSET tool refuses to run on an “unsupported” operating system. Luckily, DSET is quite easy...

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June 19, 2010

Retrieve the Dell PowerEdge Service Tag remotely from Windows or Linux

Have you ever wanted to get the Dell Service Tag from a PowerEdge machine that you don’t have physical access to? Well it’s actually quite easy as Dell make this available through the standardised Desktop Management Interface (otherwise known as DMI) framework, so you don’t even have to install any of Dell’s OpenManage tools to view it! On a Linux...

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