DRAC 5 Console Does not work correctly via Port Forwarding

[Brown, Josh]

Well I feel a little stupid here.... ok more than a little..
Allthough I am not sure this is the same problem other people are
having.

If you are using Internet Explorer and receive a "RED X" in the top left
corner of the popup window while starting a remote console session, make
sure that you have Administrative rights on your box.  If you do not, it
will not install the necessary ActiveX plugins....

Thanks,
-JB

-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Gliedt [mailto:tpg at umich.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 6:43 AM
To: Brown, Josh
Subject: Re: DRAC 5 Console Does not work correctly via Port Forwarding

Welcome to the club. I've reported the same problem with a 1950 (look in

the mailinglist about 3 weeks ago (Subject: DRAC5 and Firefox). Net of 
it is, this is broken for some people (IE and/or Firefox).

Nicola_Worthington at McAfee.com wrote:
 > I'm told by Dell that there is expected to be a new DRAC5 firmware
 > update some time around June or July next yeah that will hopefully
fix
 > this Firefox plugin installer issuer. I have yet to find out if the
 > Firefox plugin will be fixed an independantly available before then.
 > Hopefully it will be. In the mean time, I've confirmed that the
official
 > fix from Dell (the one I've been given at least) is to chmod 777 your
 > plugin install directory in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins

She promised to contact me when Dell tells her they have a solution. You

might want to contact her and get on her mailinglist.

It's possible what you report is actually different from my Firefox 
problem, although I **also** cannot get IE to work. I'm of the opinion 
this is basically busted :-(  Good thing my servers are nearby and I can

walk a few hundred feet the few times I need access to the console. Good

luck.


Brown, Josh wrote:
> 
> I currently am evaluating a couple 2950s for our use.  We have used
5th,
> 6th, 8th generation Dell Servers and have been able to rely on the
DRAC
> for remote consolse via port forwarding.  However with the new 9th gen
> 2950 with the DRAC 5 (v1.0 firmware) I cannot connect to the console
via
> portforwarding.
> 
> I forward the following ports:
> 443 - Web Interface via HTTPS
> 5900 - Keyboard/Mouse VNC port
> 5901 - Video VNC port
> 
> I connect to the HTTPS drac interface via https://localhost, login,
> click on the Console Tab.
> When I click "Connect" on the Console menu a popup shows with a little
> red X in the top left corner.
> 
> I am not sure what else to try, I am using Internet Explorer 6.0, and
I
> have SUN JVM installed.
> I have looked through
>
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smdrac3/drac5/1.00/en/UG/
> html/index.htm to no avail.