IBM IMM settings through ESXi5

[colc1705]

I have an IBM x3500M3 running ESXi 5.0 (474610) that seems to have lost it's IMM IP address. The server is at a remote location so it's not easy to get in to check the settings in the BIOS. After some googling it seems I can check the settings using the IBM ASU tool but I can't work out how to run this tool within ESXi.

Is it possible to run ASU on a running ESXi machine? If so how can it be done?

Thanks for any help,

Colin

[iw123]

Hi

Have you seen this document: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/toolsctr/v1r0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fasu%2Fusingasu_.html

[colc1705]

Thanks for the reply.

Yes I had seen that document but it does not make it clear how you run the asu command. If I connect to the ESXi host via SSH and try to run it I get 'asu not found'. I'm assuming I need to install something but I don't know what or where? There are ASU downloads for Windows and Linux, can I install the Linux version onto the ESXi host?

[housec]

Did you ever figure this out? I need to load ASU on an IBM host running ESXi 5.5 that was not built with the IBM custom ESXi image.

[vsuda09]

Was looking for the same solution but my problem was to find IMM IP of remote server and  found this tool. Running DSA tool on remote IBM servers (Esxi) will pull inventory of the server to your local Windows server . I tested this on x3850 x5 IBM running esxi 6.0U2 .

Download DSA from this link you will need IBM login to get the tool.

http://toolscenter.lenovofiles.com/help/index.jsp?topic=%2Ftoolsctr%2Fasu_main.html

Install DSA on a Windows 2012 or supported OS check the readme file , explains everything .

Command i used as a administrator prompt to get complete inventory:

C:\Users\Administrator>ibm_utl_dsa_dsyte1d-9.61_portable_windows_x86-64.exe --vmware-esxi root:password@IP_OF_ESXI: -v

Once tool is executed and completed you will have all html and xml files downloaded to a local folder . Open it with any browser and you will have all the info of the server.