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Carousel is a lie!

Wrong, wrong, wrong
Fri Oct 9 16:18:06 PDT 2009

I'm not sure exactly where I saw that DRAC6 Express does not do console redirection -- it was on a mailing list somewhere -- but that turns out to be just wrong:

(For the record, it was the "External Serial Connector" in BIOS that got me; it should be "serial device 1", not "Remote Access Device".)

I can now SSH to the DRAC and get a console just fine. I wish to apologize to Dell, the people of Monaco and the constellation Sagitarrius.

Tags: correction, dell, hardware.

Comments On This Entry

Matt Simmons
Then that's great news on the DRAC. Where does that leave the difference between the cheap and expensive versions of DRAC?
Alex Forrow
Here are the Dell docs that clear this up http://retwt.me/V0jM Looks like you get the virtual media features in the enterprise edition, and a dedicated NIC. Anyone have any particular feelings against using a shared NIC for the DRAC?
Saint Aardvark
Aha...thanks for that, Alex. As for the shared NIC, this may have caused a problem for me yesterday; during a kickstart/PXE install, I lost contact with the DRAC when I ran DHCP on that interface. The DRAC was set to use another, tagged VLAN; the only thing I can think of is that DHCP messed up either the DRAC's address or the VLAN. I don't know *why* that would have happened, since I'd been running DHCP on that NIC before as part of the install...but there you go.