Re: Dell DRAC 5 cards and 6.1-RELEASE
- From: Spencer PriceNash <spencer@xxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:32:44 -0500
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 10:29:41AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
Is anyone using the Dell DRAC 5 cards on 6.1-RELEASE? I played with it
over the weekend and couldn't seem to get it working. Then, last night, it
suddenly started working. (I can access the web admin interface now.) For
some reason, I couldn't ping the card at all, even though I used STATIC and
assigned known good IP, netmask and gateway. Then, for no apparent
reason,it started working, after another reboot. (Needless to say, my
confidence in the card isn't exactly soaring.)
It is my understanding that DRAC configuration is not applied until
after a reboot.
(I work in a place that has thousands of Dell boxes. Yes, thousands.)
The DRAC may have worked properly before a reboot if it were
(re)configured in a box previous to a *850 series, but that's tricky
and Dell doesn't support it.
In *850 and beyond, the card is part of the motherboard, and only
a restart of the OS will make it realize on what net it should
respond.
If a pre *850 DRAC is completely hosed for whatever reason, one
must replace both the motherboard and the card. (I've stood near
many a field engineer who could not believe they had to replace
both to get the box to POST properly.) If it's a *850 series,
replace the motherboard.
The native card has enough functionality for what I need, but what I'm
wondering is if anyone has managed to get the extra functionality working
under linux emulation. If so, how did you install the rpm? And which
emulation did you use?
The OS doesn't matter if it's Windows or RedHat/SuSE. Haven't seen
it working on anything else. YMMV.
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http://www.io.com/~spencer many other sites
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