Dell DRAC 5 cards and 6.1-RELEASE
Spencer PriceNash
spencer at io.com
Mon Sep 18 09:32:49 PDT 2006
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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