Dell Remote Access Controller
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What steps are necessary to apply an Enterprise license to an iDRAC7 that shipped with a different license?
I have an iDRAC7 that came with an Express License. I have purchased an Enterprise license. What do I need to do to activate the license on my iDRAC7?
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How do I secure a Dell Idrac card?
I'm trying to completely lock down a server which has to exist outside of a firewall/directly routed to the internet and whilst I have hardened the base OS to the best of my ability, I had a moment of ...
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iDRAC7 - discover Host Name, OS Name, OS Version when running RHEL 6?
Just picked up a Dell PowerEdge R720 which comes with an iDRAC 7, and am wondering how to get the host operating system (Red Hat 6) to automatically report the hostname, os name, and os version to the ...
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Using RACADM via SSL to get hardware fault information
I have several Dell R815 servers I'm trying to get hardware fault information from. My remote server is a Linux box running RHEL6. I have downloaded and installed the racadm software and can run it ...
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Drac5 configurating and enabling [closed]
I'm trying to make Drac5 work under my Dell PE1950, but I'm unable to connect to it.
Here is sysgetinfo, isnt there a way to check for some error logs? Or some button to 'enable that all'? Enable IPMI ...
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DRAC 5 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 Upgrade Firmware from v1.0 to v1.65? [closed]
I just installed a DRAC 5 card in my Dell PowerEdge 2950. The DRAC has firmware version 1.0, and I see Dell has 1.65 available.
For those of you who have experience with DRAC 5, can you tell me if ...
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Remote Access Problems with DRAC 5 on Dell PowerEdge 1950
Today I received my first Dell PowerEdge 1950 server with a DRAC 5 card. On my local network I have static configurations on my Linux systems using this for instance:
iface eth0 inet static
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How-to configure Dell Drac5 and access to it
Help me please how to configure Dell Drac5 and How to access to it. Tried almost everything on google and still no idea, how Drac works. Will I be able to reboot my machine even without VNC or SSH ...
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accessing iDRAC virtual console (java web start app) from behind a proxy?
I'm trying to launch Dell's iDRAC6 (v1.92) virtual console app (a Java Web Start app) from behind an HTTP proxy. I can log in to the iDRAC management web page and download the jnlp file, but javaws ...
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iDRAC 5 that is reporting the wrong host name
I have a iDRAC 5 that is reporting the wrong host name. I checked DNS to see if that was the issue and it wasn't. Anybody have any thoughts? Google wasn't much of a friend this time.
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apache setup for drac remote access
I've got my servers DRAC's configured with a static IP on their own network with no direct access to the internet. On the other end of that network is a linux machine that just runs apache and has a ...
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Reset DRAC to factory defaults
I put a DRAC that has not been used in a long time into a PowerEdge 1750 running CentOS 5.8.
Because we run our DRACs on a separate network, we don't change the password from the default ...
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ILO/DRAC like device for desktop
Does anyone know if there is some price friendly hardware like HP ILO/Dell DRAC for desktop PC (home server)?
I prefer PCI/PCIe form.
All I need is access to COM port and remote power cycle.
Thanks ...
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Remote Power On and IPMI Poweredge 2950
I have a poweredge 2950 server with a drac card that supports ipmi that i have set to share the connection with one of the nics but has a separate ip address. It is running esxi as the os and I was ...
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DELL DRAC & Ubuntu VPN Connection
I am trying to connect to a DELL DRAC card without success by Ubuntu VPN Connection Manager. I have these data:
Protocol: PPTP
SERVER IP PPTP: 1233.123.123.123
DRAC IP: 192.168.10.25
Subnet: ...
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Securing DRAC/ILO [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is iLO safe enough to be hung on the WAN
This might be a dumb question but DRAC/ILO both have HTTP server interfaces.
If I were trolling IP's port 80 on and I came ...
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DRAC for remote OS install w/o Virtual Media
I have a few DELL servers in a remote DC and our ISP has been very kind about doing OS installs for us. However, as we move to Production and multiple DC's I'd like to be able to do the ...
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Install MegaCli to Monitor Perc 5/i in Nexentastor 3
I have a Dell 2950 with a Perc 5/i Raid controller that we've already installed Nexentastor 3 Community Edition on. We setup a raid-10 array that and put a ZFS pool on top of the hardware. As I ...
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OMSA killed DRAC
I used to be able to use both OMSA and DRAC at the same time on my PE1950. I've updated the OMSA recently and DRAC is not accessible right after starting "Systems Management Data Engine". Shutting ...
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unable to log into DRAC5, stuck at logging in please wait
Dell 2950 III, DRAC5
I was able to previously log into to the DRAC but probably haven't done so in a year or so. I have three of those servers and I am unable to log into any of them remotely. I ...
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R710 - DRAC Configuration IPv4
* Resolved by rolling back to DRAC6_FRMW_WIN_R279926.EXE *
Having an issue with a new R710 where I cannot enable IPv4 on the iDRAC card.
I have tried enabling IPv4 and setting static IP, Gateway ...
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Using a Dell DRAC virtual console through a NAT firewall
I have two Dell Poweredge R210 servers, both running Ubuntu 10 Server x64.
Server A has a Dell iDRAC6 Enterprise ILO card (on 172.16.96.91), and both the server and the DRAC use Server B as a gateway ...
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Any Integrated Mangement Tools out there? (DRAC, iLO, RAC)
So I have been on the lookout for a master tool to manage all my Integrated management adapters on our servers here. Such as Dell DRAC, HP Integrated Lights-out and IBM's RAC
e.g mRemoteNG works ...
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Is it Possible to Configure a Dell DRAC from Windows (without Rebooting)?
One of our Dell R610 servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 doesn't have it's Enterprise DRAC configured. Is there a utility (or perhaps a way from OpenManage) to configure the DRAC without rebooting ...
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can a DELL R610 DRAC been configured while Linux OS running?
I've a Dell R610 server up and running with RHEL5, with not much possibility of getting a reboot in the near future. The DRAC card was not setup in BIOS on the initial install.
My question is there ...
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Dell Poweredge 2950 firmware upgrade bricked DRAC 5
We recently tried to upgrade the firmware on a DRAC 5 in a Poweredge 2950 with the latest "Update package for Red Hat Linux" as available here.
This failed half way though with an error and ...
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DRAC virtual floppy and kickstart?
Situation: I've got some machines with Dell iDRAC6 Enterprises that I need to kickstart remotely.
Usually, I'd go to the datacenter, jam the CD and floppy (with ks.cfg) in the machine, and be on my ...
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Garbled using from Dell Drac for serial console redirection
I'm trying to get my DRAC 5 card to do serial console redirection so that I can SSH into it and access the server's bios / grub / bootup / console.
So far, I can see/edit the bios, however as soon ...
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Dell DRAC console sessions won't time out
I've got a Dell DRAC 5 card connected to a PowerEdge 2900. I've used the console redirect successfully before, but presently the "console redirection" section shows "Active Sessions" = 2, so it won't ...
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iLo and DRAC equivalents
Does anyone know of a third party solution that supports the same feature set as HP's iLo and Dell's DRAC? Or if the product is built in to the server motherboard from companies like Super Micro.
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Any trick to connect to the DRAC console from a mac?
I have two Dell PowerEdge 2950 with DRAC5 cards, and I'm a mac user, running Snow Leopard.
Is there any trick to benefit from the remote console capability?
I am open to any suggestion, including ...
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Dying Dell PowerEdge 1800 graphics card - any solution?
I'm having a bit of problem... at the children's hospital where I work (Beit Cure Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi), we're using a 4 year old Dell PowerEdge 1800 tower server. About two years ago, we ...
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reboot on kernel panic and drac
Does anyone know if it is possible to have a DRAC5 make a screenshot of the console when Linux reboots (automatically) due to a kernel panic?
Our current system doesn't reboot automatically when it ...
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Can a RAID array be rebuilt through DRAC?
I have a Poweredge T610 and I was wondering if it is possible to completely erase and rebuild the RAID array remotely with DRAC
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Reset DRAC/MC password on Dell BladeCentre 1855
I have a Dell Blade Centre 1855, and nobody knows what the root password for the DRAC/MC card in the blade chassis is (I tried root/calvin).
I do not have IP access to the DRAC/MC, nor do I have ...
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iDrac6 Email Alert Problem
I'm trying to setup the email alerts on the iDrac6 Express on an R610, but when i run the test it just says "Sending Failed". Platform Event Filter Alerts are enabled.
The network setup is:
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Reliable way to check if a DRAC card is installed in Linux environment?
I have some Dell servers which I'm not sure if there are any DRAC cards installed (shame on me), and I'm trying to find a way to check it.
Up to now, lspci and omreport reports nothing. dmesg | grep ...
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Installing Windows 2003 over remote DRAC 4
I'm trying to install windows 2003 over a DRAC 4 console session by using a ISO file.
But it keeps freezing during the GUI installation then when login back Windows Setup says some files not found ...
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iDRAC6 Virtual Media native library cannot be loaded
When attempting to mount Virtual Media on a iDRAC6 IP KVM session I get the following error:
I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 and:
$ javaws -version
Java(TM) Web Start 1.6.0_16
$ uname -a
Linux ...
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Cannot watch boot sequence using Dell iDRAC6 enterprise
We have bought several new Dell PowerEdge R410 with a iDRAC6 Enterprise card, which is supposed to give us full remote access control over the machine, including virtual console and virtual media.
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Is it possible to connect a single NIC to two different VLANs?
I know it is possible to assign multiple IP addresses to the same NIC as long as they are on the same sub-net (e.g. server A can be assigned both 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2).
However, is it possible ...
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Can you install a Dell DRAC card in a desktop machine?
We're thinking about moving some servers out of the office and in to a datacenter. I'd like to add remote management capabilities before we do. The only problem is our servers are mostly repurposed ...
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Adding a DRAC card to a Dell server
I have 9 Dell 1850 servers that we are going to be relocating from our office to our remote data center.
In any new servers that I purchase I've been including the DRAC card in them for remote ...
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How to utilize IPMI on Windows?
My organization is primarily a Dell shop running Windows. Most are recent models that support IPMI 2.0. (Dell 1950, for example).
At a minimum I'd like to use IPMI to perform remote chassis power ...
