From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 16 04:12:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86BD716A41F for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:12:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3067D43D45 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:12:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.21] (andersonbox1.centtech.com [192.168.42.21]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k2G4CevE017762; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:12:41 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4418E5B4.1010903@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:12:36 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060112) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew McNaughton References: <20060316145215.Y18985@a2.scoop.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <20060316145215.Y18985@a2.scoop.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1334/Wed Mar 15 12:13:15 2006 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: FreeBSD-ISP List Subject: Re: experience with dell DRAC 4? X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:12:42 -0000 Andrew McNaughton wrote: > > Does anyone have experience of Dell's remote access card, the DRAC 4? > (as sold for the dell poweredge 850 I'm looking at). > > Dell suggests that it's possible, at least for windows, to install an > operating system remotely via one of these cards. If that were > possible with FreeBSD, it would be very useful for me for deploying > remote servers. > > Short of that, out of band serial access for remote management of > servers is the base criteria I'm looking for, and I'd be interested in > any feedback on how the dell card performs, and any issues relating to > FreeBSD > compatibility. > > If there's competing products I should be aware of that might also be > useful information. I use them in all our servers (1850s, 2850s), and they work very well. The latest FreeBSD-6.1-BETA4 I believe detects the DRAC as a usb keyboard/mouse, and also sees the virtual CD-ROM, however I have not used it for an install yet. I have some spare 2850's that I could test this out on though if you were interested. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------