> 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.
I have tried using OpenManage before (admittedly it was a couple of years ago) but at that time it was limited so that it could only be installed on a couple of hand-picked distros (e.g. Red Hat.) Because I prefer more flexible distros I can't run most software like this. (I always find it ironic that open source software, comprised mainly of volunteers, runs on a much wider range of systems than most financially-backed closed-source packages.) Is it still like this or can I unzip parts of it and run it direct from the command line without installing anything? > 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. Yes I would be surprised if it did crash, but then there's not too many things that will cause a machine to stop responding to ARP packets! I was hoping I'd be able to use racadm to set the IP and reboot the DRAC, but then the only version of racadm that I can find is the one on the DRAC itself... 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
