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DRAC 4/P on non-Dell PC
How to use remote KVM feature of DRAC 4/P PCI card on non-Dell server?
I'm building low-end home server based on ASUS P5B-E (Intel 965 chipset), Intel Core 2 Duo 6300 and Linux. I tried to install DRAC in different PCI slots with about the same effect. VGA part of DRAC works fine. At boot time BIOS show additional message "Sil 0680 ATA/133 Controller BIOS Version 3.4.1027". NIC ethernet link goes up at 10 Mb/s.
In Linux after installing DRAC i see 3 additional PCI devices (lspci -nn):
05:02.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Hint Corp HiNT HB4 PCI-PCI Bridge (PCI6150) [3388:0022] (rev 04)
06:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] [1002:5159]
06:07.0 IDE interface [0101]: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0680 Ultra ATA-133 Host Controller [1095:0680] (rev 02)
But i can not enter DRAC setup utility (ctrl-d does nothing at boot time) and i can not access web gui on default DRAC IP (192.168.0.120). There are no any network activity on DRAC NIC. No ARP requests/replyes, no DHCP, no any other packets...
How can i set DRAC configuration in my case?
What is the pinout for "mgmt cable" connector? Can i set DRAC config by connecting RS232 terminal or something to this connector?
Regards
Mikle
AgilentJake
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January 5th, 2009 12:00
I'm pretty sure that you're not going to be able to make this work. A lot of the functionality of the DRAC card you’re looking for simply won’t be available due to the lack of motherboard support. For example, the monitoring functionality works via the IMPI chips contained in a normal Dell server motherboard. Your motherboard does not contain those chips. You also do not have the appropriate connections needed to make the DRAC work. That management cable you’re looking to plugin is what would normally send those signals to the motherboard.
-Jake
Mikle13
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January 6th, 2009 06:00
The only DRAC functionality i need is remote display and keyboard. No need for IPMI etc. I don't want motherboard monitoring etc.
As i understand DRAC emulates VGA/HDD/keyboard controllers for main system via PCI and perform web video streaming/console redirection by means of it's onboard CPU/NIC. I want to get this part of DRAC to work.
If DRAC can provide simple control for power/reset that will be fine but not the main thing.
DELL-Jeff M
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January 6th, 2009 15:00
For a variety of reasons, this should not work. It may be possible to install IT Assistant on a Windows PC on the network with the DRAC, and use racadm to set the IP address. I know the DRAC has a default IP address, 192.168.20.1. If your Windows system has the Remote Access Controller components, and is on the same subnet as the DRAC's default IP, then racadm should be able to communicate with it if the DRAC is working.
I know the DRAC 4 does not need OS support for console redirection, but I would not be surprised if it needed some support from a Dell system board that your board would not have.