Request custom fields within the 'Board Info" and/or "Product Info" areas

fbellach · January 16, 2026, 9:30am

Hi Stefan,

We would like to use custom fields within the “Board Info” and/or “Product Info” areas, as permitted by the Platform Management FRU Information Storage Definition.

To enable this, we kindly request that you add new dedicated XML tags to the configuration file, so that these custom fields can be defined appropriately.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Cheers,

Fatih

haass · January 28, 2026, 4:40pm

Hello Fatih,

I’m not sure what you are referring to, is this information in the FRU data? If so, you may be able to write this for example using ipmitool.

cheers,

Stefan

fbellach · January 29, 2026, 10:30am

Hi Stefan,

To clear things up, we would like to use the optional custom fields in the FRU Board Information Area and Product Information Area, specifically the “Custom Board Info fields” and “Custom Product Info fields” defined in the FRU format (see images below).

Using ipmitool is not suitable for us, as we want to ensure reproducibility, traceability, and integration into our automated workflow. We therefore kindly ask for your assistance in defining these optional custom fields in the XML Configuration File, as soon as possible.

For your information, here is a concrete example of how to use the “Custom Product Information” field from the FRU of Vadatech’s ATC807 switch:

From Shelf Manager:

# clia fruinfo -v board 7

Pigeon Point Shelf Manager Command Line Interpreter

82: FRU # 0, FRU Info
Common Header:    Format Version = 1

Board Info Area:
    Version     = 1
    Language Code            = 25
    Mfg Date/Time            = Jan 24 11:49:00 2013 (8976229 minutes since 1996)
    Board Manufacturer       = VadaTech
    Board Product Name       = IPMC
    Board Serial Number      = 0820358
    Board Part Number        = ATC807
    FRU Programmer File ID   = MgtCtrl.bin
    Custom Board Info        =

Product Info Area:
    Version     = 1
    Language Code            = 25
    Manufacturer Name        = VadaTech
    Product Name             = IPMC
    Product Part / Model#    = ATC807
    Product Version          = 01.55
    Product Serial Number    = 0820358
    Asset Tag                =
    FRU Programmer File ID   =
    Custom Product Info      = 5D32

    ...

From Linux machine:

> ipmitool -H lapp-sm20 -I lan -A NONE -b 0 -t 0x82 fru print -v
FRU Device Description : Builtin FRU Device (ID 0)
 Board Mfg Date        : Thu Jan 24 12:49:00 2013
 Board Mfg             : VadaTech
 Board Product         : IPMC
 Board Serial          : 0820358
 Board Part Number     : ATC807
 Board FRU ID          : MgtCtrl.bin
 Product Manufacturer  : VadaTech
 Product Name          : IPMC
 Product Part Number   : ATC807
 Product Version       : 01.55
 Product Serial        : 0820358
 Product Extra         : 5D32
   PICMG Extension Record 

 ...

Cheers,

Fatih