Overview

The pldmtool for GetPDR command lacks to display all PDRs at once. It fetches only one PDR at a time. With a lot of sensors/effecters & with a lot of Host FRU pdrs coming in due to concurrent maintenance of the system,where the fru's are added/ removed at runtime, it's really necessary to have a full system view.

pldm_visualise_pdrs.py is a python script that can be used to fetch the PDR's from the BMC and can parse them to display a full view of available PDR's on system at any given point in time.

Requirements

• Python 3.6+
• graphviz
  • Graphviz is open source graph visualization software. Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks.
  • There are standard package available for graphviz for both rpm based as well as the debian based systems, it can be installed using :

# RPM based distro
sudo dnf install graphviz

# Debian based distro
sudo apt install graphviz

# mac distro
brew install graphviz

• The requirements.txt file should list all Python libraries that the tool depend on, and that can be installed using:

    sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt
              (or)
    pip3 install -r requirements.txt --user

Usage

$ pldm_visualise_pdrs.py [-h] --bmc BMC --user USER --password PASSWORD [--port PORT]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  --bmc BMC            BMC IPAddress/BMC Hostname
  --user USER          BMC username
  --password PASSWORD  BMC Password
  --port PORT          BMC SSH port