Dell Drac 5 User Guide
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Contents11 11 Using and Configuring Virtual Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Installing Virtual Media Browser Plug-In . . . . . . . . 185 Windows-Based Management Station . . . . . . 185 Linux-Based Management Station . . . . . . . . . 185 Running Virtual Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Supported Virtual Media Configurations . . . . . . 186 Running Virtual Media Using the Web User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Attaching and Detaching the Virtual Media Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Booting From Virtual Media . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Installing Operating Systems Using Virtual Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Using Virtual Media When the Server’s Operating System Is Running . . . . . . . 193 Using Virtual Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Enabling Virtual Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Disabling Virtual Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Storing Images in a Virtual Flash . . . . . . . . . . 195 Configuring a Bootable Virtual Flash . . . . . . . . 195 Using the Virtual Media Command Line Interface Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Utility Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Command Line Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 VM-CLI Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 VM-CLI Operating System Shell Options . . . . . . 201 Deploying Your Operating System Using VM-CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
12Contents Before You Begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Remote System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . 202 Network Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Creating a Bootable Image File . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Creating an Image File for Linux Systems . . . . 203 Creating an Image File for Windows Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Preparing for Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Configuring the Remote Systems . . . . . . . . . 203 Deploying the Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Frequently Asked Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 12 Configuring Security Features. . . . . . . . 211 Security Options for the DRAC Administrator. . . . . 212 Disabling the DRAC 5 Local Configuration . . . . 212 Disabling DRAC 5 Remote Virtual KVM . . . . . . 214 Securing DRAC 5 Communications Using SSL and Digital Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Certificate Signing Request (CSR) . . . . . . . . 216 Accessing the SSL Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . 216 Generating a New Certificate Signing Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Uploading a Server Certificate . . . . . . . . . . 219 Viewing a Server Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Using the Secure Shell (SSH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Configuring Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Enabling Additional DRAC 5 Security Options . . . . 225
Contents13 Configuring the Network Security Settings Using the DRAC 5 GUI . . . . . . . . . . . 230 13 Using the DRAC 5 SM-CLP Command Line Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 DRAC 5 SM-CLP Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 SM-CLP Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Using SM-CLP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 SM-CLP Management Operations and Targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 DRAC 5 SM-CLP Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 Property Names for Fan, Temperature, Numeric Voltage, Power Consumption, and Amperage Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 Supported Property Names for Fans, Temperature, Numeric Voltage, Power Consumption, and Amperage Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 Property Names for Power Supply Sensors . . . . 251 Property Names for Intrusion, Battery, Voltage, and Hardware Performance Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 Property Names for Fan and Power Supply Redundancy Set Sensors . . . . . . . . . . 254 Property Names for Chassis Sensors . . . . . . . 254 Property Names for Power Management Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Property Names for Power Capability . . . . . . . 256
14Contents 14 Monitoring and Alert Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Configuring the Managed System to Capture the Last Crash Screen . . . . . . . . . . 257 Disabling the Windows Automatic Reboot Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Configuring Platform Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Configuring Platform Event Filters (PEF) . . . . . 259 Configuring PET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Configuring E-Mail Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Testing e-mail Alerting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Testing the RAC SNMP Trap Alert Feature . . . . 265 Frequently Asked Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 15 Configuring Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) . . . . . . . 267 Configuring IPMI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Configuring IPMI Using the Web-Based Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Configuring IPMI Using the RACADM CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 Using the IPMI Remote Access Serial Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 Configuring Serial Over LAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 16 Recovering and Troubleshooting the Managed System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 First Steps to Troubleshoot a Remote System. . . . . 277 Managing Power on a Remote System . . . . . . . . 277
Contents15 Selecting Power Control Actions from the DRAC 5 GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 Viewing System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Main System Chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Remote Access Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 Using the System Event Log (SEL) . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Using the Command Line to View System Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 Using the POST and Operating System Boot Capture Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 Viewing the Last System Crash Screen . . . . . . . . . 283 17 Recovering and Troubleshooting the DRAC 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 Using the RAC Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 Using the Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 Using the Diagnostic Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 Using the Trace Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288 Using the racdump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 Using the coredump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 18 Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Battery Probes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Fan Probes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Chassis Intrusion Probes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
16Contents Power Supplies Probes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 Hardware Performance Probes . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 Power Monitoring Probes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 Graph Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 Power Consumption Information . . . . . . . . . 293 Power Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 Temperature Probes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 Voltage Probes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 A RACADM Subcommand Overview. . . . . 295 help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 arp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 clearasrscreen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 config . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 getconfig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 coredump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 coredumpdelete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 fwupdate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 getssninfo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 getsysinfo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 getractime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 ifconfig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 netstat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Contents17 ping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 setniccfg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314 getniccfg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 getsvctag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316 racdump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 racreset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318 racresetcfg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 serveraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 getraclog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 clrraclog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 getsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 clrsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324 gettracelog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 sslcsrgen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326 sslcertupload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328 sslcertdownload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 sslcertview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 sslkeyupload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 sslresetcfg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334 krbkeytabupload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334 testemail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
18Contents testtrap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 vmdisconnect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339 vmkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 usercertupload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 usercertview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342 localConRedirDisable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 B DRAC 5 Property Database Group and Object Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . 345 Displayable Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 idRacInfo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 idRacProductInfo (Read Only) . . . . . . . . . . 345 idRacDescriptionInfo (Read Only) . . . . . . . . 346 idRacVersionInfo (Read Only) . . . . . . . . . . . 346 idRacBuildInfo (Read Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 346 idRacName (Read Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 idRacType (Read Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 cfgLanNetworking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 cfgDNSDomainNameFromDHCP (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348 cfgDNSDomainName (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . 348 cfgDNSRacName (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . 348 cfgDNSRegisterRac (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . 349 cfgDNSServersFromDHCP (Read/Write) . . . . . 349 cfgDNSServer1 (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . 350 cfgDNSServer2 (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . 350 cfgNicEnable (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . . 350 cfgNicIpAddress (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . 351
Contents19 cfgNicNetmask (Read/Write). . . . . . . . . . . . 351 cfgNicGateway (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . . 352 cfgNicUseDhcp (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . 352 cfgNicSelection (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . 353 cfgNicMacAddress (Read Only) . . . . . . . . . . 353 cfgNicVLanEnable (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . 354 cfgNicVLanId (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354 cfgNicVLanPriority (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . 354 cfgRemoteHosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 cfgRhostsSmtpServerIpAddr (Read/Write) . . . . 355 cfgRhostsFwUpdateTftpEnable (Read/Write) . . . 355 cfgRhostsFwUpdateIpAddr (Read/Write) . . . . . 356 cfgRhostsFwUpdatePath (Read/Write) . . . . . . . 356 cfgUserAdmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 cfgUserAdminIpmiLanPrivilege (Read/Write) . . . 357 cfgUserAdminIpmiSerialPrivilege (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 cfgUserAdminPrivilege (Read/Write) . . . . . . . 358 cfgUserAdminUserName (Read/Write) . . . . . . 359 cfgUserAdminPassword (Write Only) . . . . . . . 360 cfgUserAdminEnable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360 cfgUserAdminSolEnable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360 cfgEmailAlert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 cfgEmailAlertIndex (Read Only) . . . . . . . . . . 361 cfgEmailAlertEnable (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . 361 cfgEmailAlertAddress (Read Only) . . . . . . . . . 362 cfgEmailAlertCustomMsg (Read Only) . . . . . . . 362 cfgSessionManagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362 cfgSsnMgtConsRedirMaxSessions (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362 cfgSsnMgtRacadmTimeout (Read/Write) . . . . . 363
20Contents cfgSsnMgtWebserverTimeout (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363 cfgSsnMgtSshIdleTimeout (Read/Write) . . . . . 364 cfgSsnMgtTelnetTimeout (Read/Write) . . . . . . 365 cfgSerial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 cfgSerialBaudRate (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . 366 cfgSerialConsoleEnable (Read/Write) . . . . . . 366 cfgSerialConsoleQuitKey (Read/Write) . . . . . . 366 cfgSerialConsoleIdleTimeout (Read/Write) . . . . 367 cfgSerialConsoleNoAuth (Read/Write) . . . . . . 368 cfgSerialConsoleCommand (Read/Write) . . . . 368 cfgSerialHistorySize (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . 368 cfgSerialSshEnable (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . 369 cfgSerialTelnetEnable (Read/Write) . . . . . . . 369 cfgSerialCom2RedirEnable (Read/Write) . . . . . 369 cfgNetTuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370 cfgNetTuningNicAutoneg (Read/Write) . . . . . 370 cfgNetTuningNic100MB (Read/Write) . . . . . . 371 cfgNetTuningNicFullDuplex (Read/Write) . . . . 371 cfgNetTuningNicMtu (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . 371 cfgNetTuningTcpSrttDflt (Read/Write) . . . . . . 372 cfgOobSnmp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372 cfgOobSnmpAgentCommunity (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372 cfgOobSnmpAgentEnable (Read/Write) . . . . . 373 cfgRacTuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 cfgRacTunePluginType . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 cfgRacTuneHttpPort (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . 374 cfgRacTuneHttpsPort (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . 374 cfgRacTuneIpRangeEnable . . . . . . . . . . . . 374 cfgRacTuneIpRangeAddr . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375