DRAC and VNC?

[Jeff]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Pthagonal <pthagonal at gmail.com> wrote:
> I respectfully suggest you're worrying too much about this. I have a few
> Poweredge 840 machines dotted around various remote sites all running
> CentOS. On the rare occasions I need to reboot them to change to an updated
> kernel I usually get a console connection open via the DRAC so I can watch
> the reboot in detail and it just works fine. I connect from various clients
> depending which desk or laptop I'm at- always Firefox, but from CentoS 4.x ,
> CentOS 5.x, Ubuntu 7.04, Ubuntu 8.04, XP and Vista I've never had a single
> problem. Yes it's a Java applet but it just works for me with no hassle. The
> underlying console connection does indeed seem to be vnc- I have to open
> port 5900 on the firewalls as well as https to reach the DRAC's web server,
> so that's a big hint!

Except that your PE 840 does not have a DRAC5, which completely
changes the game with respect to Firefox. I just updated the DRAC5
firmware on a PE2950 this morning and it's still no go with Firefox.
DRAC4 + Firefox is OK, but not DRAC5.

-- 
Jeff