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Article Number: 000128970

IDRAC6 Invalid Mouse Mode or Error Opening HID Socket

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Symptoms

Article Summary: This article provides information about resolving an Invalid Mouse Mode or Error Opening HID Socket on an iDRAC Virtual Console.


When accessing the IDRAC Virtual Console you may get an error "Invalid mouse mode.  Mouse mode response packet is not received from Virtual Console Service. Try again after some time."  Retrying may result in "Error Opening HID Socket".

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SLN267872_en_US__21329394851160.Error2 The keyboard and mouse in the iDRAC Virtual Console uses port 5900.  If port number 5900 blocked this error is the result.

SLN267872_en_US__31329394971585.Image 3 Unable to acess the IDRAC VirtualConsole The keyboard and mouse in the iDRAC Virtual Console uses port 5900.  If port number 5900 blocked this error is the result.

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Resolution

Open port number 5900 or configure the iDRAC to use a different port number for the keyboard and mouse to resolve this issue.

Article Properties

Affected Product

Servers

Last Published Date

21 Feb 2021

Version

3

Article Type

Solution

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