Re: Dell DRAC 5 cards and 6.1-RELEASE
Dell bumbed the DRAC5 like a shark. We use them on handful of 9th-gen PEs. The client support for Console and Remote Media completely sucks and requires VMWare + IE6. See [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more detail. Specifically the firefox drac5 threads. ~BAS On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Paul Schmehl wrote: Is anyone using the Dell DRAC 5 cards on 6.1-RELEASE? I played with it over the weekend and couldn't seem to get it working. Then, last night, it suddenly started working. (I can access the web admin interface now.) For some reason, I couldn't ping the card at all, even though I used STATIC and assigned known good IP, netmask and gateway. Then, for no apparent reason,it started working, after another reboot. (Needless to say, my confidence in the card isn't exactly soaring.) The native card has enough functionality for what I need, but what I'm wondering is if anyone has managed to get the extra functionality working under linux emulation. If so, how did you install the rpm? And which emulation did you use? Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ ...from back in the heady days when helpdesk meant nothing, diskquota meant everything, and lives could be bought and sold for a couple of pages of laser printout - and frequently were. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell DRAC 5 cards and 6.1-RELEASE
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 10:29:41AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: Is anyone using the Dell DRAC 5 cards on 6.1-RELEASE? I played with it over the weekend and couldn't seem to get it working. Then, last night, it suddenly started working. (I can access the web admin interface now.) For some reason, I couldn't ping the card at all, even though I used STATIC and assigned known good IP, netmask and gateway. Then, for no apparent reason,it started working, after another reboot. (Needless to say, my confidence in the card isn't exactly soaring.) It is my understanding that DRAC configuration is not applied until after a reboot. (I work in a place that has thousands of Dell boxes. Yes, thousands.) The DRAC may have worked properly before a reboot if it were (re)configured in a box previous to a *850 series, but that's tricky and Dell doesn't support it. In *850 and beyond, the card is part of the motherboard, and only a restart of the OS will make it realize on what net it should respond. If a pre *850 DRAC is completely hosed for whatever reason, one must replace both the motherboard and the card. (I've stood near many a field engineer who could not believe they had to replace both to get the box to POST properly.) If it's a *850 series, replace the motherboard. The native card has enough functionality for what I need, but what I'm wondering is if anyone has managed to get the extra functionality working under linux emulation. If so, how did you install the rpm? And which emulation did you use? The OS doesn't matter if it's Windows or RedHat/SuSE. Haven't seen it working on anything else. YMMV. -- Spencer PriceNash [EMAIL PROTECTED]many other addresses http://www.io.com/~spencer many other sites ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell DRAC 5 cards and 6.1-RELEASE
--On Monday, September 18, 2006 11:32:44 -0500 Spencer PriceNash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is my understanding that DRAC configuration is not applied until after a reboot. That makes sense. Thanks. The native card has enough functionality for what I need, but what I'm wondering is if anyone has managed to get the extra functionality working under linux emulation. If so, how did you install the rpm? And which emulation did you use? The OS doesn't matter if it's Windows or RedHat/SuSE. Haven't seen it working on anything else. YMMV. It works fine on FreeBSD. You just don't have the additional functionality provided by the Open Management software. I can't seem to get the rpm to install. But basic console redirection, reboot, shutdown, stats, etc. is provided by the card through the web interface. It seems to work fine. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
Re: Dell DRAC 5 cards and 6.1-RELEASE
Hi, Paul!
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:29:41 -0500 Paul Schmehl wrote:
The native card has enough functionality for what I need, but what I'm
wondering is if anyone has managed to get the extra functionality
working under linux emulation. If so, how did you install the rpm?
Don't have any experience with those cards, but I can say how to
install a linux rpm:
- ensure you have archivers/rpm2cpio installed (it is already
installed if you have installed any linux_base port);
- copy dist.rpm to any empty directory and run a command:
$ rpm2cpio dist.rpm | cpio -id
- brandelf all binary files (not libraries!):
$ brandelf -t Linux binary_file;
- as root do:
# find * -type d -exec mkdir /compat/linux/{}
# find * ! -type d | cpio -pm -R root:wheel /compat/linux
If any non-standard directories for linux libraries are created then run
# /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig -r /compat/linux
If everything goes well, you may add a pkg-plist and submit a new
port. ;-)
And which emulation did you use?
Current default (read: recommended and supported by emulation@) linux
base port is linux_base-fc4.
WBR
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Re: Dell DRAC 5 cards and 6.1-RELEASE
--On Monday, September 18, 2006 21:50:36 +0400 Boris Samorodov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, Paul!
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:29:41 -0500 Paul Schmehl wrote:
The native card has enough functionality for what I need, but what I'm
wondering is if anyone has managed to get the extra functionality
working under linux emulation. If so, how did you install the rpm?
Don't have any experience with those cards, but I can say how to
install a linux rpm:
- ensure you have archivers/rpm2cpio installed (it is already
installed if you have installed any linux_base port);
I installed linux_base-fc4.
- copy dist.rpm to any empty directory and run a command:
$ rpm2cpio dist.rpm | cpio -id
- brandelf all binary files (not libraries!):
$ brandelf -t Linux binary_file;
- as root do:
# find * -type d -exec mkdir /compat/linux/{}
# find * ! -type d | cpio -pm -R root:wheel /compat/linux
If any non-standard directories for linux libraries are created then run
# /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig -r /compat/linux
Thanks. I'll try this out and see what happens.
If everything goes well, you may add a pkg-plist and submit a new
port. ;-)
Sure. Why not?
Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
