CLI Access to DRAC II / MegaRAC 780

[dell at bobich.net]

Hi,

Thanks for responding so quickly.

> I don't have all of the answers here (it's been a long time since I
> worked with the DRAC IIs and when I did, I don't think I ever used them
> with Linux). Maybe someone who knows more than I will chime in, but
> until then maybe I can point you in the right direction.
>
> But, if I recall correctly:
> *** The command line tool for the DRAC IIs was called racconf (as
> opposed to the racadm used with the newer DRACs).

Indeed, I already have that. I found references to IM 1.6 being the 
latest, and DRAC-Common v2.5 being the latest RPM that works with this 
setup. I have all this installed and working with the megarac kernel 
module. I can configure the card the way I need it to be.

Unfortunately, this is only useful for configuring the local card. It 
cannot be used to control another card via the network.

On a related note, I assigned the DRAC2 the IP address/mask/gateway it 
needs to use, but I cannot seem to get to anything on that IP address 
afterwards. I have tried racconf -r and -d (soft and hard reset, 
respectively), and even powering off the machine and disconnecting the 
battery on the card to make sure it's re-set. I can arping the IP address, 
and it responds with the correct MAC address, but I cannot ping it, and 
nmap seems to find nothing on the IP address. Is that normal? What ports 
should be open on the card?

> *** The latest version of Open Manage with support for the DRAC II (from
> which you could install racconf) was the 4.5 release.

OK, thanks for that. I'll get the images you mentioned below. The version 
I had was v3.6 because this was the latest I had seen referred to in other 
posts regarding DRAC2s on 2450s/2550s.

> *** Open Manage 4.5 did have support for Linux, although I suppose you
> might run into version incompatibilities by now -- it's three years old
> or more.

Last reference I have manage to Google said that megarac is a v2.4 kernel 
only driver. It was never ported to v2.6. I don't have a problem with 
this, as it is only useful for talking to the local card. I can always 
have an old kernel installed and dual boot if needed just for the occasion 
I need to reconfigure the RAC (I don't expect to ever need to reconfigure 
it once I have it all working).

> You can find OM 4.5 on http://support.dell.com by searching under a PE
> 2450 and then looking at the Systems Management grouping of downloads.
> I think these are the ISOs you need (although you might be able to find
> a standalone package w/o needing to download large ISOs if you spend
> some time browsing the downloads page):
>
> ftp://ftp.dell.com/sysman/4.5_ISM_A00.ISO
> ftp://ftp.dell.com/sysman/4.5_SMC_A00.ISO
>
> I don't recall anything about the security of the DRAC II.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

Gordan