I am running the Dell OpenManage 8.4 software in an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS image running in Virtual Box.

I did this:

racadm set idrac.serverboot.FirstBootDevice VCD-DVD

racadm set idrac.serverboot.BootOnce Enabled

Then I did vmcli to remotely mount the ISO. I see the connection:

tcp       10      0 10.0.2.15:40871         135.21.179.19:443       CLOSE_WAIT

I'm trying to do all this remotely so I can automate the deployment of firmware using an ISO image.

When I powercycle the iDRAC the virtual cd/dvd is never booted. It's like it's not seeing it at all.

I've done all this via the java console before, so I'm trying to do this remotely.

Hi,

Did you mount the image in the iDRAC virtual media? If you can mount it in the iDRAC gui, you should be able to mount it after the reboot. 

I was able to manually mount the virtual CD ISO image inside of the iDRAC ubuntu OS. Then I manually rebooted the server and it the ISO was found an booted. Of course, this defeats my goal of doing a fully automated update.  I was told there is a known bug in the process to create the ISO image. Is there a fix available?

Who said there was a known bug?

There is a Dell service request #

The case owner of that would be best contact to ask.

I think the case issue was specific to the creation of the ISO.  I just figured out how to get this to work at least once.  You have to do something like this:

First, start the vmcli session where you "export" the iso image to the iDrac server:

vmcli -r -u -p -c

Then, run these commands in another ssh session:

racadm -r -u -p set idrac.serverboot.FirstBootDevice VCD-DVD

racadm -r -u -p set idrac.serverboot.BootOnce Enabled

racadm -r -u -p serveraction powercycle

Then, it should power off the iDRAC and boot from the ISO image.