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Speeding up Power Control Discoveries with Deployment Solution for Dell Servers 3.0 

Aug 16, 2007 03:10 PM

Deployment Solution for Dell Servers 3.0 has the ability to communicate with BMC and DRAC devices on Dell Server hardware via the Deployment Console. In order to enable this feature however, DRAC and BMC devices must be "discovered" using the Dell Configuration Utility. This process systematically pings a block of IP addresses searching for DRAC or BMC hardware.

By default, a range of IP addresses will be broken into 15 address blocks, and all pinged in parallel. This can be increased however, to any arbitrary size.

Do the following:

  1. Make sure all Dell utilities are closed (Job Builder, Configuration Wizard, Configuration Utility)
  2. Open your SQL database manager
  3. Open the dbo.dell_settings table
  4. Locate the PowerControlDiscoveryBreadth value, and change it's value from 15, to a larger value (for instance 75)

This will make discoveries 5 times faster (it will consume more system resources, however, so be careful when adjusting this value).

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