Hi Adam, Has anyone suggested installing/using Dell OpenManage on the server? I have used this to view and modify DRAC5 network settings in the past. It is pretty well documented by Dell, ask if you need help.
Our DRAC5's have been quite solid. I'd expect a physical problem before a crash. We have had to reseat a couple. Symptom was that in OpenManage under Remote Access we could see BMC but not DRAC listed. Hope this helps, Charles On 10/21/09 11:38 PM, "Adam Nielsen" <[email protected]> wrote: >> Did you set your IP on the laptop to be in the same subnet as the IP >> of the DRAC? > > Yep, both the original subnet and the one the DHCP service was reporting (just > in case the DRAC had switched over to DHCP.) > >> Actually you do not need a laptop. You can add a secondary IP on a server >> that has the NIC in the same VLAN as the DRAC card and set the secondary IP >> to be in the same subnet as the DRAC one. > > I didn't want to do this because I'm not 100% certain that the switch would > pass the traffic. It's some huge Cisco thing so for all I know it was set up > to only route the allowed subnet across that VLAN. > > It was probably lucky I did take the laptop, otherwise right now I wouldn't > know whether the DRAC was non-responsive or if the switch was dropping the > packets. > >> If the DRAC answers to ARP you will see it in you MAC address table. > > At the end of the exercise I had close to 255 entries in the ARP table, all > with an "(incomplete)" MAC address. It's looking more and more like the DRAC > has crashed... > > Cheers, > Adam. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq > _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
