Re: Edit BIOS settings remotely?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 12/17/06 17:36, Kevin Ross wrote:
> > We have a Dell PowerEdge server at a remote location.  After a recent
> > power failure, I came to realize the BIOS was not configured to
> > automatically turn the computer on after power is restored.  It was easy
> > enough to call someone at the remote location and have them push the
> > power button for me, but asking them to hook up a monitor and keyboard,
> > and to edit the BIOS settings, would be too much.
> >  
> > Since the settings are stored in CMOS memory, are there any programs
> > that can edit those settings?  I'd rather not have to make a trip down
> > there.
>
> Package libsmbios-bin might help.

Not too... Suggested package libsmbios-doc contains no docs.

/Mon Dec 18-08:39:16HDC3# dumpSmbios

SMBIOS table
        version    : 2.3
        address    : f0000
        length     : 1231
        num structs: 41

Handle 0x0000
        DMI type 0x0, 20 bytes.

...

/Mon Dec 18-08:40:28HDC3# dumpCmos
Dump of all Dell-specific CMOS Tokens from table 0xD4:

and nothing else.

Googled this:
http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/cmdlinetools.html

Hugo