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January 5th, 2012 10:00
2850 DRAC4/BMC question
Server noob here ....I have a 2850 and am trying to use the DRAC 4/I card for the first time, the card was bought used off the internet.
I have a PowerEdge 2850 running Win server 2008 R2 and a PC running Win 7 x64 at my home (just a simple workgroup network)
PROBLEM:
I cant remote into the DRAC4 from my Win 7 PC.
#1 I installed Dell's OpenManage Server Administrator 6.5 on the 2850 server and in the Remote Access section I added a new user and password, I then type in the IP address of the 2850 in IE on my Win 7 PC and get a login screen of the DRAC4 but I cant login to it even though I've made a new user account via OpenManage Server Administrator 6.5 ....cant this OpenManager software create a new user and let me login? if not, how can I reset the password (that was setup by the previous owner) on this DRAC? Is the User ID/password stuff in OM for the DRAC or the BMC/IPMI stuff only?
#2 I'm confused by the seperate setup screen of the DRAC 4 (Ctrl+D) and the BMC setup (Ctrl+E) at bootup. Why does the BMC have it's own IP address? Why dosent DHCP for it work...I get a good IP for the NIC and the DRAC via my DHCP server but not for the BMC IP.
#3 I installed OpenManage Server Assistant 6.5 on a spare Win 7 PC, I get a login screen and put in the IP address of the 2850 server, also use my ID and password that I would login to my server with and it wont connect...just times out. cant I use the OM software on another PC to control the 2850 server? or am I doing it wrong.
Thanks.
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theflash1932
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January 5th, 2012 10:00
At a Command Prompt, type in the following:
racadm racresetcfg
Wait for the reset to finish (a couple of minutes), then type the following (of course substituting the phrases with the appropriate settings):
racadm setniccfg -s ipaddress subnetmask gateway
You can now log using:
username: root
password: calvin
After establishing you can connect using this user, then attempt your additional users for the DRAC.
In Windows 7, you may need to open IE as Administrator and/or Unprotected Mode to install the ActiveX control for the DRAC.
DELL-Ben S
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January 5th, 2012 10:00
From cmd line on the host server
RACADM RACRESETCFG
This will reset DRAC to factory defaults, and User and Pass will be:
root
calvin
DELL-Ben S
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January 5th, 2012 13:00
it will work in IE9, works best if you set the DRAC to use JAVA over Active X. This can be done in the DRAC GUI.
JT111
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January 5th, 2012 13:00
thanks guys...that worked great ....cant seem to get the Virtual Media ActiveX plugin to install in IE9 but I guess thats cuz IE9 is not supported but the whole remote control thing works....thanks for you help.