Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 07:26:02 +1300 (NZDT) From: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: FreeBSD-ISP List <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: experience with dell DRAC 4? Message-ID: <20060318061814.A18985@a2.scoop.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <441ADD77.1040501@centtech.com> References: <20060316145215.Y18985@a2.scoop.co.nz> <4418E5B4.1010903@centtech.com> <441ACD4E.6080305@centtech.com> <20060318044213.F18985@a2.scoop.co.nz> <441ADD77.1040501@centtech.com>
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Eric Anderson wrote: > The least amount of setup needed is to configure the DRAC's IP information, > and of course cabling it up. Once that's done, you can do everything else > remotely (what I did). You can ssh into the DRAC (default u/pw: > admin/calvin), and do lots of things. If you have console redirection > enabled in the BIOS, you can ssh to the DRAC, connect to the console, and use > it to do lots of stuff. I usually use the console redirection feature in the > DRAC web console - it works great with FreeBSD 6.x with jre 1.5 installed, > and gives you the actual video/kb/mouse console as if you were in front of > the machine, great for fixing crashed machines, debugging, etc. > > Now, I just need to get a remote-power-cycling script going on FreeBSD to > reboot a machine automatically.. I gather the DRAC does ipmi as well as console access. If so, then ipmitool makes it easy to script this. eg something like: ipmitool -H <host> -U user -f <file with password> chassis power cycle Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew McNaughton http://www.scoop.co.nz/ andrew@scoop.co.nz Mobile: +61 422 753 792 pgp keyid: 70F6C32D -- "We are trying to figure out how you conduct a war against something other than a nation-state and how ... you conduct a war in countries that you are not at war with," -- Donald Rumsfeld, 27 Jan 2006
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