DRAC and VNC?

[Eberhard Moenkeberg]

Hi,

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Adam Nielsen wrote:

> Apparently (from an off-list post) you can however SSH into the DRAC and 
> access the text console from there, so that's at least one possibility!

Mostly not.
You need the BS dependant serial redirection to get the text screen - 
"connect video" is gone.
So you have no chance to see something if your server has gone.

A big step backwords with Dell's x9xx servers.


Viele Grüße
Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)

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