Re: experience with dell DRAC 4?

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Eric Anderson wrote:

The least amount of setup needed is to configure the DRAC's IP information, and of course cabling it up. Once that's done, you can do everything else remotely (what I did). You can ssh into the DRAC (default u/pw: admin/calvin), and do lots of things. If you have console redirection enabled in the BIOS, you can ssh to the DRAC, connect to the console, and use it to do lots of stuff. I usually use the console redirection feature in the DRAC web console - it works great with FreeBSD 6.x with jre 1.5 installed, and gives you the actual video/kb/mouse console as if you were in front of the machine, great for fixing crashed machines, debugging, etc.

Now, I just need to get a remote-power-cycling script going on FreeBSD to reboot a machine automatically..

I gather the DRAC does ipmi as well as console access. If so, then ipmitool makes it easy to script this. eg something like:

ipmitool -H <host> -U user -f <file with password> chassis power cycle

Andrew



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