I'm not aware of a command to reset/restart the service that controls the embedded web server on the iDRAC. You can reset/restart the iDRAC without restarting the server. Restarting the iDRAC will restart all of the services.
If you have OpenManage Server Administrator, DRAC Tools, or any other application that installs the RACADM toolset then you can issue RACADM commands from the host OS to reset the iDRAC. There is a RACADM CLI guide on the support page for the iDRAC.
There is a big difference between racreset and racresetcfg. If you add cfg to the end of the racreset it will reset the iDRAC to defaults. A racreset without cfg will only restart the iDRAC.
The iDRAC also supports IPMI, so if you have IPMI installed in the host OS you can issue a restart to the iDRAC using IPMI commands.
…thanks for the great help! My situation now is that I don’t have a racadm-command at all. The iDRAC seems to be still working, because up to now I get emails due to the notifications I once installed.
If you can SSH to iDRAC then there is no need to have remote racadm software to be installed on separate machine. You can run racadm command from SSH session.
the iDRAC is no longer pinging. the command "racadm racreset“ delivers: -sh: racadm: not found
The point is, it’s a DELL poweredge in a remote LAN. This machine once had 2 IP’s: a public one, which still can be accessed and an internal one (iDRAC-IP) which corresponded to the iDRAC (iDRAC 8 by the way). The latter is no longer pingable . Before I could visit the iDRAC- Webgui "on that“ iDRAC-IP. Somebody must have deleted it.
So what is to be done ? Making sure that the the iDRAC-IP is routed to the server ? What must be installed on the machine and where to get it ?
Sorry for the tons of questions … but I need a solution here.
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Posted February 28th, 2018 09:00
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