How to Configure Dell Drac Console Redirection for SSH Connections

Step-by-Step Guide

1. 1

   Step 1: Upgrade software and firmware Upgrade to the latest Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Managed Node package.

   Omconfig and racadm should be included in those packages.
   
   Upgrade your Drac firmware to the latest version.
   
   Install ipmitool Set the Dell Drac Password.
   
   See setting Dell Drac Passwords
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   Step 2: Determine if you have a DRAC4 or DRAC5 card installed.

   Two ways to tell your DRAC card version _before_ installing racadm (so you know which racadm to symlink to /usr/bin/racadm ) :
   First way is to use the IPMI version.
   
   DRAC4's are version
   1.5 and DRAC5's are
   2.0.
   
   Run the command, /opt/bcs/bin/ipmitool mc info |grep IPMI On a DRAC4 host= IPMI Version :
   1.5 On a DRAC5 host= IPMI Version :
   2.0 What's nice about ipmitool is that you don't have to have any OpenManage packages installed to use it.
   
   But that's not going to work when they release DRAC6 if DRAC6 is IPMI version
   2.0 as well. ,
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   Step 3: Use the omreport command as another method for determining the DRAC version: Run the command

4. 4

   Step 4: omreport chassis info |grep DRAC On a DRAC4 host = DRAC4 Version : 1.60 On a DRAC5 host = DRAC5 Version : 1.32 It is recommended that you use omreport to determine the DRAC version.

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