Questions tagged [drac]
Dell Remote Access Controller
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What is the difference between IDRAC, IPMI and ILO?
I sometimes hear my colleagues talking about iDRAC, IPMI and iLO, when restarting a server. It seems that those terms are often misused.
For instance, is there a difference between saying that you ...
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iDRAC login loop
I am trying to upgrade the iDRAC on my PowerEdge R710 but am unable to login to the Web Interface.
After I enter the admin login and password in the web UI, it thinks about it for a while, and ...
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What are the iDRAC 7 default settings?
My company has purchased a server in one of our foreign offices.
As this office is very far away, management has asked me to set it up remotely, to save on travel costs.
The server (a PowerEdge T320) ...
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Install existing SSL certificate on Dell iDRAC7
I've got some servers with iDRAC7 Enterprise and I want to add my existing wildcard SSL certificate for my domain so that when I load the iDRAC webpage I get a valid certificate.
I've tried the "...
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iDRAC Enterprise vs iDRAC Express on Dell Server
I have a Dell PowerEdge server with iDRAC6 Express and a PERC 6/iR (LSI 1068e) SAS RAID Controller.
I'm a bit confused about what this means.
Is it possible to login remotely to change bios/RAID ...
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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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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 on/...
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Dell iDRAC6 virtual console viewer from GNU/Linux command line
I am annoyed that I have to launch a webbrowser just because I want to use the virtual console through the iDRAC6.
I managed to download viewer.jnlp and I can start the viewer with:
javaws viewer.jnlp
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LOM vs. NIC for iDRAC with Dell PowerEdge R720xd
I'm trying to get going with iDRAC 7 Express (no Enterprise license so we can't use the dedicated port). In the setup menu for iDRAC, it asks to choose which network interface to use for iDRAC. ...
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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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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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Can't access iDRAC9 Web UI
I have a PowerEdge R640 server. I was previously able to access the Web UI, but now I just get a never ending spinning wheel. I can ping the IP & SSH into it, but I'm not sure what to do once I'm ...
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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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What does "shared mode" really mean on a ninth-generation and later Dell server DRAC?
We have a number of Dell PowerEdge servers, ninth generation and later.
According to Using the LAN and Serial Interfaces in Ninth-Generation Dell PowerEdge Servers:
As an enhancement over previous ...
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How to disable ipmi over lan using ipmitool
I would like to know if it is possible to disable ipmi over lan via ipmitool.
Setting the IP to 0.0.0.0 as stated here http://support.unitrends.com/ikm/questions.php?questionid=642 did not do what I ...
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Force Dell iDracs and BMC's to use lanplus instead of lan interface
Is there a way to force my Dell BMCs and iDrac cards to only use the lanplus interface and not use the insecure "lan" interface. I understand that there are some "firewall" features in the IPMI spec. ...
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Dell Blade DRAC remote: Unable to connect to RAC
I'm attempting to remotely administer a set of Dell blade servers: PE M600 and M605 with iDRAC5.
On my Windows 8.1 laptop I installed DRAC Tools v7.3. I can successfully remotely manage the M1000e ...
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Provisioning DELL servers using only linux tools
We have taken delivery of a bunch off Dell Poweredge Rack servers. Unfortunately when ordering it was neglegted to ask for dhcp to be enabled in the built in iDRAC controlers... So they are all stuck ...
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Can a RAID array be rebuilt through DRAC? [closed]
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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How to upgrade iDRAC firmware and BIOS of Dell PowerEdge R510?
I have a Dell PowerEdge R510 with iDRAC Enterprise:
System Model: PowerEdge R510
System Revision: II
Service Tag: 70BMGS1
Express Service Code: 15257000305
BIOS Version: 1.8.2
Firmware Version: 1....
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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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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 (root/calvin),...
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Find number of unused disk bays on a dell server running windows or ESXi
I have a project kicking off to implement a new backup solution across our estate of 1500 physical servers. One of the bits of info I need to get is how many drive slots are free on each server (so we ...
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Dell OpenManage Web Interface Inaccessible
We've installed all the Dell server admin tools on our Ubuntu 12.04 Server box using the following command:
sudo apt-get install srvadmin-all
All the omreport commands etc work as expected but we ...
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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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Can I configure AC Power Restored option via iDRAC on a Dell PowerEdge server?
I'd like to configure the "AC Power Restored" option that's accessible in the BIOS, but I want to do it remotely, without having to shutdown the server and go into BIOS.
I've searched through the ...
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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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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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SD card for iDRAC 6 Enterprise - Dell vFlash or "normal" SD card?
I have got the built-in iDRAC 6 Express working on our Dell R610's, but I am about to get some iDRAC 6 Enterprise cards, which can be gotten fairly cheaply on eBay (around 20 USD at the time of ...
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iDRAC6 JViewer Unusable
I'm getting the following error when trying to launch the Virtual Console, but the Virtual Console Preview works fine (it displays a small preview about once a second). I've confirmed that my M610 ...
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Use racadm to persistently set the first boot device to PXE
This is what I have been doing:
racadm -r <server> -u user -p password config -g cfgServerInfo -o cfgServerFirstBootDevice PXE
racadm -r <server> -u user -p password serveraction ...
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Cisco IOS VLAN settings for Dell iDrac with shared interface
We have a few Dell servers with iDrac express, and we would like to start using the iDrac features. Our network is separated into a few VLANs for our different subnets. Our management subnet is on ...
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Connecting to remote console on Dell iDRAC on R815 fails
The iDRAC's virtual console uses jnlp.
I have installed:
sudo apt-get install icedtea-netx
Connecting to the iDRAC's webserver works using Firefox. When I click 'Launch Virtual Console' it starts the ...
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Is there a way to power down/reset a USB port if it or a device attached has issues?
I've got an issue with some hardware in a test lab that, when the device being tested has an issue, it seems to "crash" the USB controller, causing the port to not show devices connected......
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How to determine the Java version needed for different versions of DRACs
We have two different server machines in our workplace, they are:
Dell - PowerEdge T620 - runs drac 7 (ver 1.35.35)
Dell - PowerEdge 2950 - runs drac 5 (ver 1.65)
Is it possible for me to determine ...
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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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Best Practice: iDRAC & NIC Selection
I am setting up a new Dell server with iDRAC 6 Express.
My options for the NIC are:
1) Shared
2) Shared with failover to LOM2
3) Shared with failover to all LOMs
The server has 4x LOMs.
My ...
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How to use auto-discovery with iDRAC Enterprise?
All I want to do is:
have "auto discovery" enabled on my iDRAC enterprise at the factory
rack the server, cable iDRAC to dhcp-enabled management network
have the iDRAC DHCP, find the "Provisioning ...
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Restrict IPMI access on Dell BMC and iDRAC to an allowed IP range
I'm trying to secure the iDRAC's and BMC's on some of my Dell servers (R210, R410, R510). I want to restrict access to IPMI commands to only a few IP addresses. I've successfully restricted access to ...
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Why I cannot access iDRAC9 remotely?
I have a Dell PowerEdge T350 with an iDRAC9 Basic. The server is connected to a switch which is connected to a router upstream which is connected to the internet. Very simple. Both the server's NIC1 ...
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Set iDRAC IP Address on Ubuntu 12.04 without Reboot?
We have a Dell PowerEdge R720XD server and want to setup iDRAC, but this is a production server so we need to do it without a reboot if possible.
We just need to set the IP address on the iDRAC but ...
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PERC H710p SMART data
I'm trying to read the SMART data from some harddisks attached to a perc H710p but neither ESXI nor the idrac7 will give me specifics. The idrac will display a status for the individual drives but not ...
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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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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 aud22419-linux ...
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Dell UEFI0023: Bios is unable to send the End of POST message to Management Engine because it is not responding
After updating firmware on a Dell PowerEdge R730xd we received the following error message:
UEFI0023: BIOS is unable to send the End of POST message to Management
Engine because the Management ...
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PowerEdge R905 - "The disk drive bay battery has failed"
I recently got an alert from a PE 905 which I manage: I1912 SEL Full. I checked the SEL via the DRAC web UI and saw the following message repeated about 50 times for today:
"The disk drive bay ...
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iDRAC 9 Enterprise SMTP alerts w/Office 365
I'm running a Dell PowerEdge T440 with iDRAC9 Enterprise. I'm attempting to setup SMTP alerts using Office 365. I have been unable to successfully send a test e-mail at all. I receive the error: ...
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Interpreting timestamp format on iDRAC servers
The timestamp format on the DELL iDRAC format I have is the following:
20160714195526.000000+000
20150325225105.000000+000
20150311200640.000000-300
How should I interpret it (I want to parse it to ...
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Can't get OMSA installed on Dell R610 w/ Centos 6
Trying to use the iDRAC racadm command to reset the login password for the iDRAC web gui.
So I installed OMSA (found this link http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/f/4469/t/...
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When do Dell PowerEdge servers (R210II and R620) automatically shutdown due to over heating?
I've had a hell of a time trying to find out when and how a Dell PowerEdge server (in my case we have a bunch of R210IIs and R620s with iDRACs) deals with overheating. I don't want to wait for the CPU ...