Today I was faced with the problem of setting the IP address of a DRAC (dedicated Dell Remote Access Card, which are super by the way, and a lot lot quicker than Sun’s effort) in a Dell server that was powered on, running something production on the Debian OS, and I had no physical access to the server, so no rebooting for configuration was possible.<\/p>\n
Now, if you have an idea of what IP address is on that card already you can talk to it remotely which isn’t a problem. The problem was, I had no idea what the IP address was currently set it to and it wasn’t DHCP. Even so, I had no copy of the racadm command, the Dell tool to control the card. (omconfig is available on Debian now which is nice, but omconfig bmc is a deprecated command and indicates to use racadm!)<\/p>\n
Let me tell you how to set the IP address with just a simple install of Debian and little effort. (I’m sure this on the internet somewhere but I had difficulties finding it. I expect my Google-fu was weak today.)<\/p>\n
Install IPMItool from apt:<\/p>\n
apt-get install ipmitool<\/pre>\nLoad the IPMI driver into \/dev\/ so we can talk to the card:<\/p>\n
\/usr\/share\/ipmitool\/ipmi.init.basic<\/pre>\nYou can now print the current config of the card:<\/p>\n
ipmitool lan print 1<\/pre>\nSet the new IP address up, if you want to configure it manually:<\/p>\n
ipmitool lan set 1 ipaddr 172.0.0.10\r\nipmitool lan set 1 netmask 255.255.255.0\r\nipmitool lan set 1 defgw ipaddr 172.0.0.1\r\nipmitool lan set 1 ipsrc static<\/pre>\nOr set it to DHCP if you want:<\/p>\n
ipmitool lan set 1 ipsrc dhcp<\/pre>\nCheck your settings:<\/p>\n
ipmitool lan print 1<\/pre>\nReboot the DRAC; You may not have to do this, I did (and\/or I’m impatient)<\/p>\n
ipmitool mc reset cold<\/pre>\nWithin a minute the card should be up and responding to ping. Hurrah! <\/strong><\/p>\n
Note:<\/strong> I tried these on a DRAC4 card, and whilst it looked like it was accepting my instructions, it seems it was infact completely ignoring me. I had to configure this one manually in the BIOS. These commands work fine on a DRAC5 though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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