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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

But it seems viewer.jnlp changes for each run. Specifically:

<argument>user=1234567890</argument>                                                   
<argument>passwd=123456789</argument>                                                  

My guess is that iDRAC6 makes a random user/password for each run and that this can be used only once.

I would much prefer, if I could simply do:

drac-virtual-console-viewer username password drac.ip.nr

Is there a tool for that?

Or is there a way I can download the viewer.jnlp given the username/password?

It seems other versions of the iDRAC support VNC, but I cannot get that to work on the iDRAC6. But if I could get that to work, it would also solve my problem.

System: Dell R815 iDRAC6

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  • Have you heard or used racadm? It's a command-line tool you use to tweak iDRAC, BIOS, get logs, etc. You don't see the BIOS startup in a GUI, but you can query BIOS settings & set those settings. I think its available for iDRAC6 & Linux? dell.com/support/manuals/us/en/04/…
    – gregg
    Jul 24, 2020 at 18:49

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assuming iDRAC IP is 10.64.31.76

download this file https://10.64.31.76:443/software/avctKVM.jar from your idrac

run:

java -cp Downloads/avctKVM.jar com.avocent.idrac.kvm.Main ip=10.64.31.76 kmport=5900 vport=5900 user=root passwd=calvin apcp=1 version=2 vmprivilege=true "helpurl=https://10.64.31.76:443/help/contents.html"

user and root passwords are the idrac credentials.

I got a working console

tested with:

  • Windows 10
  • java version "10.0.2" 2018-07-17
  • Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 18.3 (build 10.0.2+13)
  • Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 18.3 (build 10.0.2+13, mixed mode)
  • iDRAC 6 Enterprise
  • PowerEdge R310

credits to: https://gist.github.com/xbb/4fd651c2493ad9284dbcb827dc8886d6

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There are 2 console available:

  1. VGA via iDRAC VNC
  2. Serial via IPMI Serial Over Lan

VGA

  1. Install JDK
  2. Linux workstation: download avctVMLinux64.jar and avctKVMIOLinux64.jar. Create a lib folder, then unpack libavctKVMIO.so and libavmlinux.so into lib/ folder. You can find the URLs in the *.jnlp file.
  3. Windows workstation: download similar files found in *.jnlp. Download avctVMWin64.jar and avctKVMIOWin64.jar. Create lib folder, then unpack avctKVMIO.dll and avmlinux.dll into lib folder.
  4. Edit jre/lib/security/java.security and make sure you remove 3DES_EDE_CBC from jdk.tls.legacyAlgorithms=
  5. Import SSL certificate: $JAVA_HOME/bin/keytool -keystore $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/cacerts -storepass changeit -importcert -file <(echo ""|openssl s_client -connect iDRACHostName:443 2>/dev/null|openssl x509) -alias iDRACHostName -noprompt
  6. Connect: $JAVA_HOME/bin/java -cp avctKVM.jar -Djava.library.path=./lib com.avocent.idrac.kvm.Main ip=iDRACHostName kmport=5900 vport=5900 apcp=1 version=2 vmprivilege=true helpurl=https://iDRACHostName:443/help/contents.html user=Administrator passwd=ipmi_password

IPMI SOL

  1. Configure serial redirection in BIOS
  2. Linux: configure serial support in GRUB and install and configure a serial agetty
  3. Windows: enable serial console, then reboot: bcdedit /ems {current} on then bcdedit /emssettings EMSPORT:1 EMSBAUDRATE:115200
  4. Connect: ipmitool -I lanplus -H iDRACHostName -U Administrator -P password sol activate
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  • How does your first solution differ from exeral's? It seems the last command is essentially the same.
    – Ole Tange
    Jul 24, 2020 at 22:03
  • This improves on the accepted answer. The added details around the security exceptions and importing the certificate made this work for me, whereas the simple version did not. Nov 22, 2020 at 18:26
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This is by far the easiest way: https://github.com/DomiStyle/docker-idrac6

A web based docker container that gives you full functionality!

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