Here are some of the Linux hints and documentation that seems to be woefully lacking or just mis-leading on the greater wider Internet.

This applies to Dell servers of course. First off, install ipmitools:

apt-get update; apt-get install ipmitools

To find out the options available in ipmitools, run:

ipmitools help

and there is a manpage available too.

To set the iDRAC8 System Host Name, you want:

ipmitools mc setsysinfo system_name HOSTNAME

To set the iDRAC8 Operating System, you want:

ipmitools mc setsysinfo os_name OSNAME

To set the iDRAC8 Operating System Version, you want:

ipmitools mc setsysinfo delloem_os_version OSVERSION

And that's it - after that, if you refresh the iDRAC8 Server Overview screen you will see the changes you made.

This will of course depend on the switch model you are using and the IOS version, but I've documented here what works in the installations I've been assisting with.

This example shows the /etc/network/interfaces configuration using two ethernet interfaces on a server to be combined to form a LAG, and using LACP.

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