Dell Drac 5 User Manual
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Contents11 Storing Images in a Virtual Flash. . . . . . . . . . 182 Configuring a Bootable Virtual Flash . . . . . . . . 182 Using the Virtual Media Command Line Interface Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Utility Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Command Line Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 VM-CLI Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 VM-CLI Operating System Shell Options . . . . . 188 Deploying Your Operating System Using VM-CLI . . . . 189 Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Remote System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Network Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Creating a Bootable Image File . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Creating an Image File for Linux Systems . . . . . 190 Creating an Image File for Windows Systems . . . 190 Preparing for Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Configuring the Remote Systems . . . . . . . . . 191 Deploying the Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Frequently Asked Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 11 Configuring Security Features . . . . . . . 199 Security Options for the DRAC Administrator . . . . . 200 Disabling the DRAC 5 Local Configuration . . . . . 200 Disabling DRAC 5 Remote Virtual KVM . . . . . . 202 Securing DRAC 5 Communications Using SSL and Digital Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
12Contents Certificate Signing Request (CSR) . . . . . . . . . 204 Accessing the SSL Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . 204 Generating a New Certificate Signing Request . . . 205 Uploading a Server Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Viewing a Server Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Using the Secure Shell (SSH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Configuring Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 Enabling Additional DRAC 5 Security Options . . . . . 212 Configuring the Network Security Settings Using the DRAC 5 GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 12 Using the DRAC 5 SM-CLP Command Line Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 DRAC 5 SM-CLP Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 SM-CLP Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Using SM-CLP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 SM-CLP Management Operations and Targets . . 221 Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 DRAC 5 SM-CLP Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Property Names for Fan, Temperature, Numeric Voltage, Power Consumption, and Amperage Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Supported Property Names for Fans, Temperature, Numeric Voltage, Power Consumption, and Amperage Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Property Names for Power Supply Sensors . . . . 236 Property Names for Intrusion, Battery, Voltage, and Hardware Performance Sensors . . . . . . . 237 Property Names for Fan and Power Supply Redundancy Set Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Property Names for Chassis Sensors . . . . . . . 240
Contents13 Property Names for Power Management Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 Property Names for Power Capability . . . . . . . 241 13 Monitoring and Alert Management. . . . 243 Configuring the Managed System to Capture the Last Crash Screen . . . . . . . . . . 243 Disabling the Windows Automatic Reboot Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 Configuring Platform Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 Configuring Platform Event Filters (PEF) . . . . . . 245 Configuring PET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Configuring E-Mail Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Testing e-mail Alerting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 Testing the RAC SNMP Trap Alert Feature . . . . 251 Frequently Asked Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 14 Configuring Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) . . . . . . . 253 Configuring IPMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 Configuring IPMI Using the Web-Based Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 Configuring IPMI Using the RACADM CLI . . . . . 256 Using the IPMI Remote Access Serial Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 Configuring Serial Over LAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
14Contents 15 Recovering and Troubleshooting the Managed System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 First Steps to Troubleshoot a Remote System. . . . . . 263 Managing Power on a Remote System . . . . . . . . . 263 Selecting Power Control Actions from the DRAC 5 GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Viewing System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Main System Chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Remote Access Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 Using the System Event Log (SEL) . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Using the Command Line to View System Log . . . 268 Using the POST and Operating System Boot Logs . . . 268 Viewing the Last System Crash Screen . . . . . . . . . 269 16 Recovering and Troubleshooting the DRAC 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Using the RAC Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Using the Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 Using the Diagnostic Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 Using the Trace Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 Using the racdump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 Using the coredump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Contents15 17 Sensors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 Battery Probes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 Fan Probes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 Chassis Intrusion Probes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 Power Supplies Probes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 Hardware Performance Probes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 Power Monitoring Probes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 Temperature Probes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 Voltage Probes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 A RACADM Subcommand Overview. . . . . 281 help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 arp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 clearasrscreen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 config . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 getconfig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 coredump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288 coredumpdelete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 fwupdate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 getssninfo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 getsysinfo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
16Contents getractime. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 ifconfig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 netstat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 ping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 setniccfg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 getniccfg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 getsvctag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 racdump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 racreset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 racresetcfg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 serveraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 getraclog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 clrraclog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 getsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 clrsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310 gettracelog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 sslcsrgen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 sslcertupload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314 sslcertdownload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 sslcertview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 sslkeyupload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 krbkeytabupload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Contents17 testemail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 testtrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 vmdisconnect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324 vmkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 usercertupload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 usercertview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 localConRedirDisable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328 B DRAC 5 Property Database Group and Object Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 Displayable Characters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 idRacInfo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 idRacProductInfo (Read Only) . . . . . . . . . . . 329 idRacDescriptionInfo (Read Only) . . . . . . . . . 330 idRacVersionInfo (Read Only) . . . . . . . . . . . 330 idRacBuildInfo (Read Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 idRacName (Read Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 idRacType (Read Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 cfgLanNetworking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 cfgDNSDomainNameFromDHCP (Read/Write) . . 332 cfgDNSDomainName (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . 332 cfgDNSRacName (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . 332 cfgDNSRegisterRac (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . 333 cfgDNSServersFromDHCP (Read/Write) . . . . . 333 cfgDNSServer1 (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . 334 cfgDNSServer2 (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . 334 cfgNicEnable (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . . 334 cfgNicIpAddress (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . 335
18Contents cfgNicNetmask (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . 335 cfgNicGateway (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . 336 cfgNicUseDhcp (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . 336 cfgNicSelection (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . 337 cfgNicMacAddress (Read Only) . . . . . . . . . . 338 cfgNicVLanEnable (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . 338 cfgNicVLanId (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338 cfgNicVLanPriority (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . 339 cfgRemoteHosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339 cfgRhostsSmtpServerIpAddr (Read/Write) . . . . 339 cfgRhostsFwUpdateTftpEnable (Read/Write) . . . 340 cfgRhostsFwUpdateIpAddr (Read/Write) . . . . . 340 cfgRhostsFwUpdatePath (Read/Write) . . . . . . 340 cfgUserAdmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 cfgUserAdminIpmiLanPrivilege (Read/Write) . . . 341 cfgUserAdminIpmiSerialPrivilege (Read/Write) . . 341 cfgUserAdminPrivilege (Read/Write) . . . . . . . 342 cfgUserAdminUserName (Read/Write) . . . . . . 343 cfgUserAdminPassword (Write Only) . . . . . . . 344 cfgUserAdminEnable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344 cfgUserAdminSolEnable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 cfgEmailAlert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 cfgEmailAlertIndex (Read Only) . . . . . . . . . . 345 cfgEmailAlertEnable (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . 346 cfgEmailAlertAddress (Read Only) . . . . . . . . . 346 cfgEmailAlertCustomMsg (Read Only) . . . . . . . 346 cfgSessionManagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 cfgSsnMgtConsRedirMaxSessions (Read/Write) . 347 cfgSsnMgtRacadmTimeout (Read/Write) . . . . . 347 cfgSsnMgtWebserverTimeout (Read/Write) . . . . 348
Contents19 cfgSsnMgtSshIdleTimeout (Read/Write) . . . . . 348 cfgSsnMgtTelnetTimeout (Read/Write) . . . . . . 349 cfgSerial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 cfgSerialBaudRate (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . 350 cfgSerialConsoleEnable (Read/Write) . . . . . . . 350 cfgSerialConsoleQuitKey (Read/Write) . . . . . . 350 cfgSerialConsoleIdleTimeout (Read/Write) . . . . 351 cfgSerialConsoleNoAuth (Read/Write) . . . . . . 352 cfgSerialConsoleCommand (Read/Write) . . . . . 352 cfgSerialHistorySize (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . 352 cfgSerialSshEnable (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . 353 cfgSerialTelnetEnable (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . 353 cfgSerialCom2RedirEnable (Read/Write) . . . . . 353 cfgNetTuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354 cfgNetTuningNicAutoneg (Read/Write) . . . . . . 354 cfgNetTuningNic100MB (Read/Write) . . . . . . . 355 cfgNetTuningNicFullDuplex (Read/Write) . . . . . 355 cfgNetTuningNicMtu (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . 355 cfgNetTuningTcpSrttDflt (Read/Write) . . . . . . . 356 cfgOobSnmp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 cfgOobSnmpAgentCommunity (Read/Write) . . . 356 cfgOobSnmpAgentEnable (Read/Write) . . . . . . 357 cfgRacTuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 cfgRacTuneHttpPort (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . 357 cfgRacTuneHttpsPort (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . 358 cfgRacTuneIpRangeEnable . . . . . . . . . . . . 358 cfgRacTuneIpRangeAddr . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358 cfgRacTuneIpRangeMask . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 cfgRacTuneIpBlkEnable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 cfgRacTuneIpBlkFailcount . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 cfgRacTuneIpBlkFailWindow . . . . . . . . . . . 360
20Contents cfgRacTuneIpBlkPenaltyTime . . . . . . . . . . . 360 cfgRacTuneSshPort (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . 361 cfgRacTuneTelnetPort (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . 361 cfgRacTuneRemoteRacadmEnable (Read/Write) . . 361 cfgRacTuneConRedirEncryptEnable (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362 cfgRacTuneConRedirPort (Read/Write) . . . . . . 362 cfgRacTuneConRedirVideoPort (Read/Write) . . . 362 cfgRacTuneAsrEnable (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . 363 cfgRacTuneDaylightOffset (Read/Write) . . . . . . 363 cfgRacTuneTimezoneOffset (Read/Write) . . . . . 364 cfgRacTuneWebserverEnable (Read/Write) . . . . 364 cfgRacTuneLocalServerVideo (Read/Write) . . . . 365 cfgRacTuneLocalConfigDisable . . . . . . . . . . 365 cfgRacTuneCtrlEConfigDisable . . . . . . . . . . . 366 ifcRacManagedNodeOs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366 ifcRacMnOsHostname (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . 366 ifcRacMnOsOsName (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . 366 cfgRacSecurity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367 cfgRacSecCsrCommonName (Read/Write) . . . . 367 cfgRacSecCsrOrganizationName (Read/Write) . . 367 cfgRacSecCsrOrganizationUnit (Read/Write) . . . 368 cfgRacSecCsrLocalityName (Read/Write) . . . . . 368 cfgRacSecCsrStateName (Read/Write) . . . . . . 368 cfgRacSecCsrCountryCode (Read/Write) . . . . . 369 cfgRacSecCsrEmailAddr (Read/Write) . . . . . . . 369 cfgRacSecCsrKeySize (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . 370 cfgRacVirtual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370 cfgVirMediaAttached (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . 370 cfgVirAtapiSrvPort (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . . . 371 cfgVirAtapiSrvPortSsl (Read/Write) . . . . . . . . 371 cfgVirMediaKeyEnable (Read/Write) . . . . . . . 372