Discover DRAC5 MAC/IP remotely

[Adam Nielsen]

>     Has anyone suggested installing/using Dell OpenManage on the server?
> I have used this to view and modify DRAC5 network settings in the past.
> It is pretty well documented by Dell, ask if you need help.

I have tried using OpenManage before (admittedly it was a couple of years ago) 
but at that time it was limited so that it could only be installed on a couple 
of hand-picked distros (e.g. Red Hat.)  Because I prefer more flexible distros 
I can't run most software like this.  (I always find it ironic that open 
source software, comprised mainly of volunteers, runs on a much wider range of 
systems than most financially-backed closed-source packages.)

Is it still like this or can I unzip parts of it and run it direct from the 
command line without installing anything?

>     Our DRAC5's have been quite solid. I'd expect a physical problem
> before a crash. We have had to reseat a couple. Symptom was that in
> OpenManage under Remote Access we could see BMC but not DRAC listed.

Yes I would be surprised if it did crash, but then there's not too many things 
that will cause a machine to stop responding to ARP packets!

I was hoping I'd be able to use racadm to set the IP and reboot the DRAC, but 
then the only version of racadm that I can find is the one on the DRAC itself...

Cheers,
Adam.