Can racadm tell me if DRAC network port has a link?

[Brian A. Seklecki]

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 13:51 -0500, Jeff Larsen wrote:
> My DRAC is offline (at a remote location with nary a geek in sight)
> but the host is OK. Are there any options from within the host OS to
> show if the DRAC network jack has an active link? I just hate making
> non-techies mess around with my server rack.

Time to invest in some managed switches :)

Catalyst 2948Gs are hella cheap for running non-critical management
networks.

~BAS

> racadm getsysinfo shows the proper network configuration.
> 
> racadm racreset appears to successfully reboot the DRAC, but I still
> can't ping the IP or connect to the Web UI.
> 
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Brian A. Seklecki <bseklecki at collaborativefusion.com>
Collaborative Fusion, Inc.