Hello, I've got a PowerEdge R210ii running Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS with an iDRAC6 Express card installed. I recently sat down to try to get remote management working on it, and have been having trouble getting things to work.
Unfortunately, the machine is hooked up to a somewhat funky network setup, and some of its network connections involve switches that I don't have full access to, so when it comes to network-based management I can't rule out issues unrelated to the machine itself. So I thought I'd start by trying "local" RAC operations. I'm not having any luck on that front either. I've added the repository at http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/ubuntu/, installed the 'srvadmin-idracadm' package, then tried to run "sudo /opt/dell/srvadmin/sbin/racadm getsysinfo". I get: IMPORTANT NOTE! The RAC is unable to communicate with the BMC. This condition may occur because of (1) no BMC is present, (2) missing or disfunctional IPMI-related software components. Many RAC features depend on BMC connectivity in order to work properly, and you may see failures as a result. ERROR: RACADM is unable to process the requested subcommand because there is no local RAC configuration to communicate with. Local RACADM subcommand execution requires the following: 1. A Remote Access Controller (RAC) must be present on the managed server 2. Appropriate managed node software must be installed and running on the server Am I even trying the right thing here? Maybe a BIOS setting I need to change? While I'm at it ... the docs on network-based management seem to say that the OS needs to support "teaming" on the NIC for things to work. Is this something that should just magically work in my setup, or do I need to do some special configuration in the Ubuntu install? Thanks for any pointers, Peter _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
