We need to get to the iDrac’s serial recovery mode, and then we can recover the system. Reboot the system, and after the system resets itself for not being able to reach iDrac go into “System Setup”, the F2 key; Hit down until you select “Serial Communication”, enter that menu; Set the following settings. Dell has a number of license levels for iDRAC 8 and we were able to test the iDRAC 8 Enterprise version. This is the top of the line Dell iDRAC 8 implementation. At STH we test servers from vendors playing primarily as bare bones ODMs up to traditional enterprise IT equipment purveyors. IDRAC Secure Enterprise Key Manager (SEKM) License 634-BSRH iDRAC Secure Enterprise Key Manager License (POS) $249 Factory installed (POS) license available for: Rack servers with Intel CPU: R940, R940xa, R840, R740, R740xd, R640, R540, R440.
The licenses are tied to your machine's serial number. People selling licenses have either reverse-engineered the way serials are checked or have had access to the algorithm with which the key is generated. In my (indirect) experience, you get to keep the serial you have. If you don't have an enterprise license, you can't use the dedicated iDRAC port. You have to set the iDRAC to use existing network card LOM ports. Once you configured the iDRAC with the enterprise or enterprise trial license, you can use the dedicated port on the module that you have purchased.
With the introduction of the Dell Hardware into the VxRack SDDC and Flex1000 ecosystems, I figured I better spend some time figuring out the iDRAC PowerShell cmdlets.
Older versions of adobe acrobat. Prerequisites: Powershell v3 minimum Installed
iDRAC Module Locations: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/7727.powershell-cmdlets-for-poweredge-servers
Check where your current modules are installed by running this command
Xiaomi tool for mac. Your Module Location will be listed as below.
Unzip the iDRAC module into this location and relaunch your PowerShell application. Your new module should be listed.
Connect to iDRAC node
Use the $myhost0 variable with Get-PESystemInformation cmdlet to gather further information on your system.
Better still save that command as a variable and you can pick and choose what details you want to parse from the host.
Now we want to select multiple values and pass them out to a new CSV file called idrac.csv
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So now I wanted to increase the data I collected and run it on all my iDRAC server.
And the result
I mentioned in one of my earlier blogs that I would give information on to see boot messages using IPMI and SOL. These are the steps I would normally use. I’m using a Dell R610 server with a DRAC 5 Enterprise card installed. All the newer Dell servers have DRAC Express which this works the same way with Enterprise vs Express.
I’ll give you all the steps which I had setup in order to get both Kernel and Xen debug logs when setting up a SolusVM server.
First start out by booting your server and going into the configuration management using F2,
Game condition zero. Then select Serial Communication
- Set Serial Communication to On with Console Redirection via COM2
- Set Serial Port Address to Serial Device1=COM1,Serial Device2=COM2
- The rest should be default
Now exit and save settings.
Serial port 1 is onboard and serial port 2 is going to be your DRAC card for SOL.
Next reboot one more time and go into the DRAC configuration.
During the boot you’ll see something that looks like this for setting up Dell Remote Access Controller (DRAC).
Press hit Control-e at this point, and we’re going to set the IP, user and password.
- Make sure iDRAC6 LAN is set to On
- Make sure IPMI Over LAND is set to On
- Go into Lan Paramters
- Make sure IPv4 is Enabled
- Set your IPv4 Address, Subnet Mask, and Default Gateway
- Set IPv6 to Enabled if you want that also
- Then escape to got back on screen.
- Edit LAN User Configuration
- Default for Dell DRAC is root and calvin, so you want to change.
- Enter Account User Name
- Enter Password
- Escape to to go back again
- Then escape to exit and save
Now we need to make some kernel parameter and xen settings. For more information see by Xen Boot Messages blog.
You’ll need to edit file /etc/default/grub
The default for GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX and GRUB_CMDLINE_XEN_DEFAULT looks like this for me:
Note the parameters are updated based on my previous blog for fixing Xen boot messages. specially you want to make sure you’re using com2 which I mentioned earlier outputs to the DRACs SOL.
Before rebooting you server don’t forget to run
Now we should be ready to connect using ipmitool and sol from another server. So login to another machine which you’re going to use to monitor boot messages.
Make sure you’ve got ipmitool installed
Next connect using ipmitool sol
To exit quickly type
tilde then period on a blank line.
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No go ahead and reboot your server that you updated the bios and kernel settings and you should see all your boot messages starting from the bios, to xen and kernel.