Actually, I was trying to be funny, and reference the closing credits of some TV shows. The production company for one of my favorite shows, House, is Bad Hat Harry Productions, and that line is theirs.
>>> Harry Singh <[email protected]> 08/02/11 4:53 PM >>> My bad. I'm still getting up to speed with the Dell server management components, from the Lifecycle Controller to the USC and UEFi it's a bit blurry. I'm pretty certain the BMC has a different name since that acronym isn't on the R710 or R610's I have. PS. Gotta give credit where credit is due: if you're referring to the picture associated with my gmail account, that's Paul Newman from Road to Perdition. Love the movie, character, sartorial aesthitic and Era as a whole. On Tuesday, August 2, 2011, Joseph Heaton <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't think that's accurate. the DRAC has always been the DRAC (Dell Remote Access controller). The BMC is a monitoring tool, that collects motherboard info. > > Plus, > > That's some bad hat, Harry. > >>>> Harry Singh <[email protected]> 08/02/11 3:21 PM >>> > What's the OS of the server? I had a similiar issue recently, although Dell > has renamed the BMC to iDRAC, and needed to update the firmware via Service > Console on my ESX 4.1 server. > > If it's windows, download the firmware update package for the BMC, apply it, > reboot and see if that works out. > > > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Kim Longenbaugh <[email protected] >wrote: > >> I'm not familiar with the device, so this may not apply, but here goes: >> Is there a place where you have to enable telnet and/or web access? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 4:27 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Dell BMC >> >> Anyone have any experience with Dell's Baseboard Management Controller? I'm >> getting mixed information from Dell. I can't seem to get ahold of anyone in >> Tech Support via email. I may have to call them when I'm in front of the >> server so I can get them to help me set it up. >> >> I got instructions from my sales rep's Storage Specialist on how to set it >> up, and I thought I'd set it up right. I hit CTL+E when the prompt for >> "configure remote access" came up and gave it a static IP and enabled IPMI >> over LAN. Still can't telnet to that IP address. It responds to a PING on >> that IP address, but no telnet/web connection allowed. Just times out. >> >> If anyone has any experience with this, can you chime in? If not, I guess >> I'll give Dell a call eventually. >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
