Even with an unsupported OS, you can still access the DRAC4's web interface to get console access, powercycle the system, etc. You can also use the web interface to set up system alerts (temperature, chassis open alarms, memory errors, etc.) It won't give RAID status or anything, but it's still worth having one in a production system (especially at the cheap prices on ebay) just so you can get remote console access or reboot if you need it.
Steve -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthew Lenz Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 3:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: drac4's uses We're planning on sticking with our 1850/2850s as our production environment for the time being. We never did DRAC4s in any of these machines when they were new but you can get the cards used dirt cheap on ebay (as well as spare 1850 and 2850 systems). Are the DRAC4 worth looking at when using non-supported OSes like Debian? I use openipmi for basic system health stuff but is there other cooler stuff that the DRAC4 is able to do that ipmi isn't (for non-supported oses)? -Matt _______________________________________________ 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
