Dell iDRAC6 for Blade Servers Version 2.1 User guide

Integrated Dell

™

Remote

Access Controller 6 (iDRAC6)

Enterprise for Blade Servers

Version 2.1

User Guide

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Contents 3

Contents

1 iDRAC6 Enterprise Overview . . . . . . . . . . 29

IPv6 Ready Logo Certification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

iDRAC6 Security Features

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

iDRAC6 Enterprise and vFlash Media

. . . . . . . . . . 31

Supported Platforms

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Supported Operating Systems

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Supported Web Browsers

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Supported Remote Access Connections

. . . . . . . . 34

iDRAC6 Ports

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Other Documents You May Need

. . . . . . . . . . . . 35

2 Configuring iDRAC6 Enterprise . . . . . . . . 39

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Interfaces for Configuring iDRAC6

. . . . . . . . . . . 39

Configuration Tasks

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Configure the Management Station

. . . . . . . . 43

Configure iDRAC6 Networking

. . . . . . . . . . . 43

Configure iDRAC6 Users

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Configure Active Directory

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Configure IP Filtering and IP Blocking

. . . . . . . 44

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Configure Platform Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Enabling or Disabling Local

Configuration Access

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Configure iDRAC6 Services

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Configure Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

. . . . . . . 46

Configure Virtual Media

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Configure a vFlash Media Card

. . . . . . . . . . . 46

Install the Managed Server Software

. . . . . . . 46

Configure the Managed Server for the

Last Crash Screen Feature

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Configuring Networking Using the

CMC Web Interface

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Launching iDRAC6 Web Interface

From the CMC

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Configuring Networking for iDRAC6

. . . . . . . . 49

Viewing FlexAddress Mezzanine Card

Fabric Connections

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

FlexAddress MAC for iDRAC6

. . . . . . . . . . . 51

Remote Syslog

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Remote File Share

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Updating iDRAC6 Firmware

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Downloading the Firmware or

Update Package

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Executing the Firmware Update

. . . . . . . . . . 56

Verifying the Digital Signature

for Linux DUPs

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Using iDRAC6 Web Interface

. . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Updating iDRAC6 Firmware

Using RACADM

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Using the DOS Update Utility

. . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Clear Your Browser’s Cache

. . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Contents 5

Updating the USC Repair Package . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Configuring iDRAC6 For Use

With IT Assistant

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Using iDRAC6 Configuration Utility

to Enable Discovery and Monitoring

. . . . . . . . . . 63

Using iDRAC6 Web Interface to Enable

Discovery and Monitoring

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Using IT Assistant to View iDRAC6

Status and Events

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

3 Configuring the Management

Station

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Management Station Set Up Steps . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Management Station Network Requirements

. . . . . 67

Configuring a Supported Web Browser

. . . . . . . . . 68

Opening Your Web Browser

. . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Configuring Your Web Browser to

Connect to the Web Interface

. . . . . . . . . . . 68

Adding iDRAC6 to the List of

Trusted Domains

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Viewing Localized Versions of the

Web Interface

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Setting the Locale in Linux

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Disabling the Whitelist Feature in Firefox

. . . . . 73

Installing iDRAC6 Software on the

Management Station

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Installing and Removing RACADM on

a Linux Management Station

. . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Installing RACADM

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Uninstalling RACADM

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

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Installing a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) . . . . . . 75

Installing Telnet or SSH Clients

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Telnet with iDRAC6

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Configuring the Backspace Key

For Telnet Sessions

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

SSH With iDRAC6

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Installing a TFTP Server

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Installing Dell OpenManage IT Assistant

. . . . . . . . 79

Installing Dell Management Console

. . . . . . . . . . 80

4 Configuring the Managed

Server

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Installing the Software on the

Managed Server

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Configuring the Managed Server to

Capture the Last Crash Screen

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Disabling the Windows Automatic

Reboot Option

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

5 Configuring iDRAC6 Enterprise

Using the Web Interface

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Accessing the Web Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Logging In

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Logging Out

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Using Multiple Browser Tabs

and Windows

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

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Configuring iDRAC6 NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Configuring the Network, IPMI

and VLAN Settings

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Configuring IP Filtering and IP Blocking

. . . . . . 92

Configuring Platform Events

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Configuring Platform Event Filters (PEF)

. . . . . . 95

Configuring Platform Event Traps (PET)

. . . . . . 95

Configuring E-Mail Alerts

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Configuring IPMI Over LAN

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Adding and Configuring iDRAC6 Users

. . . . . . . . . 98

Securing iDRAC6 Communications Using

SSL and Digital Certificates

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Certificate Signing Request (CSR)

. . . . . . . . . 102

Accessing the SSL Main Menu

. . . . . . . . . . 103

Generating a New Certificate

Signing Request

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Uploading a Server Certificate

. . . . . . . . . . . 105

Viewing a Server Certificate

. . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Configuring and Managing Active

Directory Certificates

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Configuring Active Directory (Standard

Schema and Extended Schema)

. . . . . . . . . . 108

Viewing an Active Directory

CA Certificate

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Enabling or Disabling Local

Configuration Access

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Enabling Local Configuration Access

. . . . . . . 113

Disabling Local Configuration Access

. . . . . . . 113

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Configuring iDRAC6 Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Updating iDRAC6 Firmware

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Updating iDRAC6 Firmware

Using the CMC

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

iDRAC6 Firmware Rollback

. . . . . . . . . . . . 118

6 Using iDRAC6 With Microsoft

Active Directory

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Prerequisites for Enabling Active

Directory Authentication for iDRAC6

. . . . . . . . . 122

Supported Active Directory

Authentication Mechanisms

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Extended Schema Active Directory Overview

. . . . 123

Extending the Active Directory Schema

. . . . . 123

Active Directory Schema Extensions

. . . . . . . 123

Overview of iDRAC6 Schema Extensions

. . . . . 124

Active Directory Object Overview

. . . . . . . . 124

Accumulating Privileges Using

Extended Schema

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Configuring Extended Schema

Active Directory to Access iDRAC6

. . . . . . . 127

Installing the Dell Extension to the

Active Directory Users and

Computers Snap-In

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Adding iDRAC6 Users and Privileges

to Active Directory

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Configuring Active Directory With

Extended Schema Using iDRAC6

Web Interface

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Configuring Active Directory With

Extended Schema Using RACADM

. . . . . . . . 138

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Standard Schema Active Directory

Overview

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Single Domain Versus Multiple

Domain Scenarios

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Configuring Standard Schema Active

Directory to Access iDRAC6

. . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Configuring Active Directory With

Standard Schema Using iDRAC6

Web Interface

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Configuring Active Directory With

Standard Schema Using RACADM

. . . . . . . . . 146

Testing Your Configurations

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Enabling SSL on a Domain Controller

. . . . . . . . . . 149

Exporting the Domain Controller Root

CA Certificate to iDRAC6

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Importing iDRAC6 Firmware SSL

Certificate

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Using Active Directory to Log In to iDRAC6

. . . . . . . 151

Using Active Directory Single Sign-On

. . . . . . . . . 152

Configuring iDRAC6 to Use Single Sign-On

. . . . 152

Logging Into iDRAC6 Using Single Sign-On

. . . . 154

Frequently Asked Questions

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Active Directory Log In Issues

. . . . . . . . . . . 154

Active Directory Certificate Validation

. . . . . . . 158

Extended and Standard Schema

. . . . . . . . . . 158

Miscellaneous

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

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7 Configuring Smart Card

Authentication

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Configuring Smart Card Login in iDRAC6 . . . . . . . 161

Logging Into iDRAC6 Using Active

Directory Smart Card Authentication

. . . . . . . . . 163

Troubleshooting the Smart Card

Logon in iDRAC6

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

8 Enabling Kerberos Authentication . . . . 167

Prerequisites for single sign-on and Active

Directory Authentication Using Smart Card

. . . . . . 168

Configuring iDRAC6 for single sign-on and

Active Directory Authentication

Using Smart Card

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Configuring Active Directory Users for

single sign-on Logon

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Logging Into iDRAC6 Using single sign-on

for Active Directory Users

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Configuring Active Directory Users

for Smart Card Logon

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

iDRAC6 Login Scenarios with TFA and SSO

. . . . . . 172

9 Viewing the Configuration and

Health of the Managed Server

. . . . . . . 173

System Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Main System Enclosure

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Integrated Dell Remote Access

Controller 6 - Enterprise

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Contents 11

WWN/MAC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Health

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

iDRAC6

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

CMC

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Batteries

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Temperatures

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Voltages

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Power Monitoring

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

CPU

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

POST

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Misc Health

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

10 Power Monitoring and

Power Management

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Configuring and Managing Power . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Power Monitoring

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Viewing Power Monitoring

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Power Budgeting

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Viewing Power Budget

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Power Budget Threshold

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Power Control

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Executing Power Control

Operations on the Server

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

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11 Configuring and Using

Serial Over LAN

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Enabling Serial Over LAN in the BIOS. . . . . . . . . 187

Configuring Serial Over LAN in

iDRAC6 Web GUI

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Using Serial Over LAN (SOL)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Model for Redirecting SOL

Over Telnet or SSH

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Model for the SOL Proxy

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Model for Redirecting SOL Over IPMItool

. . . . 192

Disconnecting SOL session in

iDRAC6 Command Line Console

. . . . . . . . . 192

Using SOL over PuTTY

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Using SOL over Telnet with Linux

. . . . . . . . . 193

Using SOL over OpenSSH with Linux

. . . . . . . 194

Using SOL over IPMItool

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Opening SOL with SOL proxy

. . . . . . . . . . . 195

Operating System Configuration

. . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Linux Enterprise Operating System

. . . . . . . . 200

Windows 2003 Enterprise

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

12 Using GUI Console Redirection . . . . . . . 207

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Using Console Redirection

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Supported Screen Resolutions

and Refresh Rates

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Configuring the Management Station

. . . . . . 208

Configuring Console Redirection and

Virtual Media in iDRAC6 Web Interface

. . . . . 209

Opening a Console Redirection Session

. . . . . 211

Contents 13

Using the Video Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Synchronizing the Mouse Pointers

. . . . . . . . . 217

Disabling or Enabling Local Console

. . . . . . . . 217

Frequently Asked Questions

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

13 Configuring the vFlash Media

Card for Use With iDRAC6

. . . . . . . . . . 223

Installing a vFlash Media Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Removing a vFlash Media Card

. . . . . . . . . . . 224

Configuring the vFlash Media Card

Using iDRAC6 Web Interface

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Enabling or Disabling the

vFlash Media Card

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Formatting the vFlash Media Card

. . . . . . . . . 225

Uploading Disk Image

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Viewing the vFlash Key Size

. . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Configuring the vFlash Media

Card Using RACADM

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Enabling or Disabling the

vFlash Media Card

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Resetting the vFlash Media Card

. . . . . . . . . . 227

14 Configuring and Using

Virtual Media

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Windows-Based Management Station

. . . . . . 230

Linux-Based Management Station

. . . . . . . . . 231

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Configuring Virtual Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Running Virtual Media

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Disconnecting Virtual Media

. . . . . . . . . . . 235

Booting From Virtual Media

. . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Installing Operating Systems

Using Virtual Media

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Using Virtual Media When the

Server’s Operating System Is Running

. . . . . . 236

Frequently Asked Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

15 Using the RACADM

Command Line Interface

. . . . . . . . . . . . 241

RACADM Subcommands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Supported RACADM Interfaces

. . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Using local RACADM Commands

. . . . . . . . . . . 246

Using the RACADM Utility to

Configure iDRAC6

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Displaying Current iDRAC6 Settings

. . . . . . . 247

Managing iDRAC6 Users with RACADM

. . . . . 248

Adding an iDRAC6 User

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Enabling an iDRAC6 User

With Permissions

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Removing an iDRAC6 User

. . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Testing E-mail Alerting

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Testing iDRAC6 SNMP Trap Alert Feature

. . . . 251

Configuring iDRAC6 Network Properties

. . . . . 251

Configuring IPMI Over LAN

. . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Configuring PEF

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Configuring PET

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Configuring IP Filtering (IP Range)

. . . . . . . . 257

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Configuring IP Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Configuring IP Blocking

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Configuring iDRAC6 Telnet and SSH

Services Using Local RACADM

. . . . . . . . . . 261

Remote and SSH/Telnet RACADM

. . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Remote RACADM Usage

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Remote RACADM Options

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Using an iDRAC6 Configuration File

. . . . . . . . . . . 264

Creating an iDRAC6 Configuration File

. . . . . . . 264

Configuration File Syntax

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Modifying iDRAC6 IP Address

in a Configuration File

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Loading the Configuration File

Into iDRAC6

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

Configuring Multiple iDRAC6s

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

16 Using iDRAC6 Enterprise

SM-CLP Command Line Interface

. . . . . 271

System Management With SM-CLP . . . . . . . . . . . 272

iDRAC6 SM-CLP Support

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

How to start a SM–CLP session

. . . . . . . . . . 272

SM-CLP Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Navigating the MAP Address Space

. . . . . . . . . . 276

Targets

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Using the Show Verb

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Using the -display Option

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Using the -level Option

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Using the -output Option

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

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iDRAC6 SM-CLP Examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Server Power Management

. . . . . . . . . . . 278

SEL Management

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

MAP Target Navigation

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Updating iDRAC6 Firmware

Using SM-CLP

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

17 Using the WS-MAN Interface . . . . . . . . 283

WS-Management Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Supported CIM Profiles

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

18 Deploying Your Operating

System Using iVMCLI

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Before You Begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Remote System Requirements

. . . . . . . . . . 287

Network Requirements

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Creating a Bootable Image File

. . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Creating an Image File for Linux

Systems

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Creating an Image File for

Windows Systems

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Preparing for Deployment

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Configuring the Remote Systems

. . . . . . . . . 288

Deploying the Operating System

. . . . . . . . . . . . 289

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Using the Virtual Media Command

Line Interface Utility

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Installing the iVMCLI Utility

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Command Line Options

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

iVMCLI Parameters

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

iVMCLI Operating System Shell Options

. . . . . . 295

19 Using iDRAC6 Configuration

Utility

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Starting iDRAC6 Configuration Utility

. . . . . . . . . . 298

Using iDRAC6 Configuration Utility

. . . . . . . . . . . 298

iDRAC6 LAN

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

IPMI Over LAN

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

LAN Parameters

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Virtual Media Configuration

. . . . . . . . . . . . 303

System Services

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

LAN User Configuration

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Reset to Default

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

System Event Log Menu

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Exiting iDRAC6 Configuration Utility

. . . . . . . . 307

20 Recovering and Troubleshooting

the Managed System

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Safety First – For You and Your System . . . . . . . . . 309

Trouble Indicators

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

LED Indicators

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Hardware Trouble Indicators

. . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Other Trouble Indicators

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

18 Contents

Problem Solving Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Checking the System Health

. . . . . . . . . . . 312

Checking the System Event Log (SEL)

. . . . . . 313

Checking the Post Codes

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Viewing the Last System Crash Screen

. . . . . . 314

Viewing the Most Recent

Boot Sequences

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Checking the Server Status Screen

for Error Messages

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Viewing iDRAC6 Log

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324

Viewing System Information

. . . . . . . . . . . 325

Identifying the Managed Server

in the Chassis

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Using the Diagnostics Console

. . . . . . . . . . 326

Managing Power on a Remote System

. . . . . . 327

Troubleshooting and Frequently

Asked Questions

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

A RACADM Subcommand Overview . . . . . 335

help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

config

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

getconfig

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

getssninfo

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

getsysinfo

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

getractime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

setniccfg

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

getniccfg

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

getsvctag

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

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racreset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

racresetcfg

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

serveraction

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

getraclog

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

clrraclog

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

getsel

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

clrsel

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

gettracelog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

sslcsrgen

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

sslcertupload

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

sslcertdownload

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

sslcertview

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

testemail

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

testtrap

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

vmdisconnect

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

clearasrscreen

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

localconredirdisable

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368

fwupdate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

krbkeytabupload

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

vmkey

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

version

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

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arp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

coredump

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

coredumpdelete

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

ifconfig

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

netstat

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

ping

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376

ping6

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

racdump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

traceroute

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

traceroute6

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

remoteimage

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

B iDRAC6 Enterprise Property

Database Group and

Object Definitions

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Displayable Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

idRacInfo

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

idRacProductInfo (Read Only)

. . . . . . . . . . 384

idRacDescriptionInfo (Read Only)

. . . . . . . . 384

idRacVersionInfo (Read Only)

. . . . . . . . . . . 384

idRacBuildInfo (Read Only)

. . . . . . . . . . . . 385

idRacName (Read Only)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

idRacType (Read Only)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

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