1# Overview 2 3The `pldmtool` for `GetPDR` command lacks to display all PDRs at once. It 4fetches only one PDR at a time. With a lot of sensors/effecters & with a lot of 5Host FRU pdrs coming in due to concurrent maintenance of the system,where the 6fru's are added/ removed at runtime, it's really necessary to have a full system 7view. 8 9`pldm_visualise_pdrs.py` is a python script that can be used to fetch the PDR's 10from the BMC and can parse them to display a full view of available PDR's on 11system at any given point in time. 12 13# Requirements 14 15- Python 3.6+ 16- graphviz 17 - Graphviz is open source graph visualization software. Graph visualization is 18 a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs 19 and networks. 20 - There are standard package available for graphviz for both rpm based as well 21 as the debian based systems, it can be installed using : 22 23```bash 24 RPM Distro : sudo dnf install graphviz 25 Debian Distro : sudo apt install graphviz 26 Mac Distro : brew install graphviz 27``` 28 29- The `requirements.txt` file should list all Python libraries that the tool 30 depend on, and that can be installed using: 31 32```bash 33 sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt 34 (or) 35 pip3 install -r requirements.txt --user 36``` 37 38# Usage 39 40```ascii 41usage: pldm_visualise_pdrs.py [-h] --bmc BMC --user USER --password PASSWORD [--port PORT] 42 43optional arguments: 44 -h, --help show this help message and exit 45 --bmc BMC BMC IPAddress/BMC Hostname 46 --user USER BMC username 47 --password PASSWORD BMC Password 48 --port PORT BMC SSH port 49 50``` 51