IDRAC 6 - reboot

Question

Hello,

I have Dell R610 running ESXi 5.0, with about 11VMs.

I tried to get the memory information from IDRAC web GUi in the "system inventory" tab, but it keeps on saying : Hardware Inventory is unavailable. Try again at a later time.

I want to reboot the IDRAC and I want to know if the reboot is possible without rebooting the ESX host and without affecting the VM running on the host.

My IDRAC is at version 1.99.

Other info, I have another server, this one is R710 and running the same Idrac 1.99 version, and from this I can get the memory information perfectly without any issue.

I thank you in advance

Regards

Nicolas

DELL-Martijn G · Accepted Answer

Yes that is possible, you can restart the iDRAC through the iDRAC GUI or for instance with racadm racreset. This will only restart the iDRAC and leave the OS running.

DELL-Martijn G · Answer

You might also want to check if Collect System Inventory On Restart (CSIOR) is enabled in the BIOS.

Collecting System Inventory

The Lifecycle Controller performs an inventory and collects the configuration information for all hardware on every system restart, when the Collect System Inventory On Restart (CSIOR) setting is enabled. Additionally, the system inventory collection capability detects hardware changes and, if Part Replacement Firmware Update Setting is enabled, the Lifecycle Controller has the ability to restore an existing configuration on any newly detected hardware based on the inventory collected during the previous system restart

The CSIOR setting is disabled by default and can be enabled locally using USC or remotely with WS-Man. It can be set to one of the following settings:

Enable: Hardware inventory and configuration information is collected on every system restart. Collecting system inventory might affect boot time depending on the hardware present in the system.
Disable: Hardware inventory and configuration information will not be collected on every system restart. Part replacement might not have the most up to date information when inventory collection on restart is disabled and part replacement accuracy will be impacted.

nmedard · Answer

Hi Martijn But if the server is running I have no way to verify this? This should be enable at server start in BIOS? Regards Nicolas

nmedard · Answer

Thank you very much

DELL-Martijn G · Answer

You should be able to use WS-MAN to get the status. Unfortunately I don't have an 11G server to test but run this command against the iDRAC

winrm e cimv2/root/dcim/DCIM_LCEnumeration -u:USERNAME -p:PASSWORD -r:https://iDRACIP/wsman -SkipCNcheck -SkipCAcheck -encoding:utf-8 -a:basic

Make sure to replace USERNAME, PASSWORD and iDRACIP with the proper values.

One of the attributes is:

DCIM_LCEnumeration
AttributeName = Collect System Inventory on Restart
CurrentValue = Enabled
DefaultValue = Enabled
ElementName = LC.emb.1
InstanceID = LifecycleController.Embedded.1#LCAttributes.1#CollectSystemInventoryOnRestart
IsReadOnly = false
PendingValue = null
PossibleValues = Disabled, Enabled

nmedard · Answer

May be I will do it via bios....We will plan a reboot next week. Thank Martijn Regards Nicolas

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