Re: Can I please get some help with my port of dell Racadm? (https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201799)

> On Sep 1, 2025, at 04:29, Marcin Cieslak <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Dear Dan,
> 
> as some who has had a pull request open with some open source
> project for 11 years I share your frustration.
> 
> I have you have dealt with all of the legalese stuff properly in your recent shar file.

Somewhat.  When you search around for racadm license, what you get is info about how to use racadm to upload a license key file to a machine.  I haven’t found a proper license file per-se.

> In the Yocto Linux build tree of iDRAC 7.20.30.50 (available from
> opensource.dell.com) they download argtable 2.13 from Sourceforge
> and simply build it without any change. The RPM files you have contain
> probably argtable 2.11 from the year 2009. But given you need
> a Linux build anyway, this is of no help here.

In the blog entry I linked, I point out that dell ships a copy of argtable.

> racadm seems to be embargoed, i.e. the iDRAC tree contains some binary
> components pre-built by Dell.
> 
> I think it perfectly makes sense to use the old bug and submit the
> git diff there (as an attachment), you can also push the patch to
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/differential/
> 
> Probably it might be worth switching to the Red Hat 9 userland
> instead of the already dead CentOS 7.

Yes, I said that as well.  Also, the current port won’t work with any of the current openssl stuff, so a new version needs to be pulled in.

> But there is also one more possibility to deal with the Dell machines:
> 
> https://github.com/dell/iDRAC-Redfish-Scripting provides the information
> how to script some functionality of iDRAC using the Redfish protocol.
> 
> There is even a guide mapping some racadm commands to the Redfish APIs
> available.

Yes, but most of the guides out there and a lot of the tooling out there, and *all* the dell documentation talk about racadm.

https://xkcd.com/927/

> But a full racadm port can be useful anyway.. I think we are pretty
> close to get this committed....

Let’s hope.

> 
> Marcin