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 based distro 25sudo dnf install graphviz 26 27# Debian based distro 28sudo apt install graphviz 29 30# mac distro 31brew install graphviz 32``` 33 34- The `requirements.txt` file should list all Python libraries that the tool 35 depend on, and that can be installed using: 36 37```bash 38 sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt 39 (or) 40 pip3 install -r requirements.txt --user 41``` 42 43## Usage 44 45```bash 46$ pldm_visualise_pdrs.py [-h] --bmc BMC --user USER --password PASSWORD [--port PORT] 47 48optional arguments: 49 -h, --help show this help message and exit 50 --bmc BMC BMC IPAddress/BMC Hostname 51 --user USER BMC username 52 --password PASSWORD BMC Password 53 --port PORT BMC SSH port 54 55``` 56