Off you go… into the purple yonder!

Dell’s DRAC5 is based on free software. The source has been rumored to be available but hard to find – until today, when this helpful e-mail popped up on the linux-poweredge list.
Here’s the link to an ISO with the DRAC5 source:
http://linux.dell.com/files/drac5/source/

I found this script while looking for a simple script to monitor mdadm arrays. The script is fine, but it has a subtle bug – it will never report an error because the –detail parameter is missing in the call to mdadm. I modified the script a bit, like so:

#!/bin/sh
# (c) 2008 Jasper Spaans

worst=0
msg=”"

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