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February 27th, 2020 03:00
PXE Retry
Hello,
I have a problem with a missing setting in iDRAC/BIOS.
According to idrac cli guide there should be an setting named "nic.nicconfig.bootretrycnt".
I want to retry booting via pxe if the first attempt fails. but i cant find this setting in racadm or bios settings.
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bewe2005
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February 28th, 2020 07:00
sorry that didnt help. i know that i have to specify the nic:
/admin1-> racadm get nic.nicconfig.1
[Key=NIC.Integrated.1-1-1#nicconfig]
LegacyBootProto=PXE
#LnkSpeed=AutoNeg
#NumberVFAdvertised=32
VLanId=642
WakeOnLan=Disabled
/admin1-> racadm set nic.nicconfig.1.bootretrycnt 1
ERROR: RAC1019: The specified object is not supported for the current system
configuration.
Verify the object dependency using "racadm help
class>. . ", and retry the operation. For example,
"racadm help NIC.vndrConfigPage.1.VirtWWPN".
/admin1->
also i have tried with several firmware-versions across my customers: versions 2.15, 3.00, 3.30, 3.60, 4.00. except for v4.00 the setting is described in the correspondent racadm-cli-guide but not available for racadm
DELL-Chris H
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February 28th, 2020 07:00
Bewe2005,
It will depend on the nic you are using.
If nic 1 the command is
racadm set NIC.NICConfig.1.bootretrycnt -1 in order to set it to 1.
If nic 2 it would be
racadm set NIC.NICConfig.2.bootretrycnt -1 to set it to 1.
Let me know if this helps.
bewe2005
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February 28th, 2020 08:00
no that didnt help also:
bootretry 1
bootretry -1
bootretry - 1
calling the help function gives me (FW-Version 4.00):
racadm>>help nic.nicconfig.bootretrycnt
Dependency -- None
BootRetryCnt -- Specify the number of retries to attempt in case of boot failure.
Usage -- NoRetry - 0;1Retry - 1; 2Retries - 2;3Retries - 3;4Retries - 4; 5Retries - 5;6Retries- 6; IndefiniteRetries, Default - NoRetry
Required License -- RACADM
Dependency -- None
racadm>>
DELL-Chris H
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February 28th, 2020 08:00
Does it work if you put a hypen at bootretrycnt - 1, so
racadm set nic.nicconfig.1.bootretrycnt - 1
bewe2005
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April 24th, 2020 05:00
finally found the solution: it depends of the nic vendor which options are available.
intel nics do not have the bootretrycnt-parameter, but broadcom has