Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] iDRAC6 Serial Access to RACADM

2016-05-05 Thread Elie_Jreij 
Dell - Internal Use - Confidential
When you enable BIOS redirection, do you see BIOS menus on the serial port? 
Also what baud rates are you using for BIOS, iDRAC and minicom?
Regards,
Elie

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Subject: Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] iDRAC6 Serial Access to RACADM

iDRAC has the ability to change the port for ssh to something other than 22.
It also has the ability to upload ssh keys so you make the password complex and 
rely on the keys.

Sorry I don't have more help for serial access to DRAC.


Cameron Smith
Technical Operations Manager
Network Redux, LLC
5200 SW Macadam Ave Ste 450
Portland, Oregon 97239
Cell:   503-926-4928

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Adonis Peralta 
<doni...@gmail.com<mailto:doni...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Yea, unfortunately the scenario I'm trying to handle is a bit different. My 
iDrac is on a public facing network unfortunately without much of a choice so I 
have ssh disabled remote ipmi disabled and only allow access to a few ips. I do 
this for security hardening. The problem becomes that those Ips can change and 
I'll be locked out of iDrac when they do. I have access to local ipmi via the 
os but I cant disable the IP filtering via ipmi because I dont know the raw 
command to do it (if there is one). That leaves one option for me which is 
connect via serial :(. Really looking for some suggestions on this.

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 7:33 PM Cameron Smith 
<came...@networkredux.com<mailto:came...@networkredux.com>> wrote:
I usually just ssh to the DRAC IP to run racadm commands


Cameron Smith
Technical Operations Manager
Network Redux, LLC
5200 SW Macadam Ave Ste 450
Portland, Oregon 97239
Cell:   503-926-4928

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Adonis Peralta 
<doni...@gmail.com<mailto:doni...@gmail.com>> wrote:
For the life of me I can’t figure out how to connect to the iDRAC6 (racadm 
login) (Im on a Dell R710 - iDRAC6 Enterprise) via the serial port. I go into 
the bios and have Serial with Console Redirection to COM2. I then Enable RACADM 
serial via the web gui. I then proceed to try to connect to the COM2 serial 
port via minicom and I just keep getting nothing. Minicom says not connected - 
Just a blank screen. I followed the manual and performed the  +  
<9> command and nothing. I also went into the bios and remove the console 
redirection so that it’d just say Serial enabled without console redirection. I 
then set external console port to COM2 and still nothing. Same problem.

I am not trying to connect to the serial console (a display of what the OS 
has). I want to serial into the iDRAC itself so that I can run the racadm 
commands. Looking at the manual it implies this can be done but nothing I am 
trying works.

Thanks,
Adonis
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Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] iDRAC6 Serial Access to RACADM

2016-05-05 Thread Cameron Smith 
iDRAC has the ability to change the port for ssh to something other than 22.
It also has the ability to upload ssh keys so you make the password complex
and rely on the keys.

Sorry I don't have more help for serial access to DRAC.


Cameron Smith
Technical Operations Manager
Network Redux, LLC
5200 SW Macadam Ave Ste 450
Portland, Oregon 97239
Cell:   503-926-4928

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Adonis Peralta  wrote:

> Yea, unfortunately the scenario I'm trying to handle is a bit different.
> My iDrac is on a public facing network unfortunately without much of a
> choice so I have ssh disabled remote ipmi disabled and only allow access to
> a few ips. I do this for security hardening. The problem becomes that those
> Ips can change and I'll be locked out of iDrac when they do. I have access
> to local ipmi via the os but I cant disable the IP filtering via ipmi
> because I dont know the raw command to do it (if there is one). That leaves
> one option for me which is connect via serial :(. Really looking for some
> suggestions on this.
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 7:33 PM Cameron Smith 
> wrote:
>
>> I usually just ssh to the DRAC IP to run racadm commands
>>
>>
>> Cameron Smith
>> Technical Operations Manager
>> Network Redux, LLC
>> 5200 SW Macadam Ave Ste 450
>> Portland, Oregon 97239
>> Cell:   503-926-4928
>>
>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Adonis Peralta  wrote:
>>
>>> For the life of me I can’t figure out how to connect to the iDRAC6
>>> (racadm login) (Im on a Dell R710 - iDRAC6 Enterprise) via the serial port.
>>> I go into the bios and have Serial with Console Redirection to COM2. I then
>>> Enable RACADM serial via the web gui. I then proceed to try to connect to
>>> the COM2 serial port via minicom and I just keep getting nothing. Minicom
>>> says not connected - Just a blank screen. I followed the manual and
>>> performed the  +  <9> command and nothing. I also went into the
>>> bios and remove the console redirection so that it’d just say Serial
>>> enabled without console redirection. I then set external console port to
>>> COM2 and still nothing. Same problem.
>>>
>>> I am not trying to connect to the serial console (a display of what the
>>> OS has). I want to serial into the iDRAC itself so that I can run the
>>> racadm commands. Looking at the manual it implies this can be done but
>>> nothing I am trying works.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Adonis
>>>
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Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] iDRAC6 Serial Access to RACADM

2016-05-05 Thread Adonis Peralta 
Yea, unfortunately the scenario I'm trying to handle is a bit different. My
iDrac is on a public facing network unfortunately without much of a choice
so I have ssh disabled remote ipmi disabled and only allow access to a few
ips. I do this for security hardening. The problem becomes that those Ips
can change and I'll be locked out of iDrac when they do. I have access to
local ipmi via the os but I cant disable the IP filtering via ipmi because
I dont know the raw command to do it (if there is one). That leaves one
option for me which is connect via serial :(. Really looking for some
suggestions on this.
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 7:33 PM Cameron Smith 
wrote:

> I usually just ssh to the DRAC IP to run racadm commands
>
>
> Cameron Smith
> Technical Operations Manager
> Network Redux, LLC
> 5200 SW Macadam Ave Ste 450
> Portland, Oregon 97239
> Cell:   503-926-4928
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Adonis Peralta  wrote:
>
>> For the life of me I can’t figure out how to connect to the iDRAC6
>> (racadm login) (Im on a Dell R710 - iDRAC6 Enterprise) via the serial port.
>> I go into the bios and have Serial with Console Redirection to COM2. I then
>> Enable RACADM serial via the web gui. I then proceed to try to connect to
>> the COM2 serial port via minicom and I just keep getting nothing. Minicom
>> says not connected - Just a blank screen. I followed the manual and
>> performed the  +  <9> command and nothing. I also went into the
>> bios and remove the console redirection so that it’d just say Serial
>> enabled without console redirection. I then set external console port to
>> COM2 and still nothing. Same problem.
>>
>> I am not trying to connect to the serial console (a display of what the
>> OS has). I want to serial into the iDRAC itself so that I can run the
>> racadm commands. Looking at the manual it implies this can be done but
>> nothing I am trying works.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Adonis
>>
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Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] iDRAC6 Serial Access to RACADM

2016-05-05 Thread Cameron Smith 
I usually just ssh to the DRAC IP to run racadm commands


Cameron Smith
Technical Operations Manager
Network Redux, LLC
5200 SW Macadam Ave Ste 450
Portland, Oregon 97239
Cell:   503-926-4928

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Adonis Peralta  wrote:

> For the life of me I can’t figure out how to connect to the iDRAC6 (racadm
> login) (Im on a Dell R710 - iDRAC6 Enterprise) via the serial port. I go
> into the bios and have Serial with Console Redirection to COM2. I then
> Enable RACADM serial via the web gui. I then proceed to try to connect to
> the COM2 serial port via minicom and I just keep getting nothing. Minicom
> says not connected - Just a blank screen. I followed the manual and
> performed the  +  <9> command and nothing. I also went into the
> bios and remove the console redirection so that it’d just say Serial
> enabled without console redirection. I then set external console port to
> COM2 and still nothing. Same problem.
>
> I am not trying to connect to the serial console (a display of what the OS
> has). I want to serial into the iDRAC itself so that I can run the racadm
> commands. Looking at the manual it implies this can be done but nothing I
> am trying works.
>
> Thanks,
> Adonis
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[Linux-PowerEdge] iDRAC6 Serial Access to RACADM

2016-05-05 Thread Adonis Peralta 
For the life of me I can’t figure out how to connect to the iDRAC6 (racadm 
login) (Im on a Dell R710 - iDRAC6 Enterprise) via the serial port. I go into 
the bios and have Serial with Console Redirection to COM2. I then Enable RACADM 
serial via the web gui. I then proceed to try to connect to the COM2 serial 
port via minicom and I just keep getting nothing. Minicom says not connected - 
Just a blank screen. I followed the manual and performed the  +  
<9> command and nothing. I also went into the bios and remove the console 
redirection so that it’d just say Serial enabled without console redirection. I 
then set external console port to COM2 and still nothing. Same problem.

I am not trying to connect to the serial console (a display of what the OS 
has). I want to serial into the iDRAC itself so that I can run the racadm 
commands. Looking at the manual it implies this can be done but nothing I am 
trying works.

Thanks,
Adonis
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