From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 17 18:26:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F7A16A522 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:26:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@scoop.co.nz) Received: from a2.scoop.co.nz (aurora.scoop.co.nz [202.50.109.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C97F43D70 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:26:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andrew@scoop.co.nz) Received: from a2.scoop.co.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a2.scoop.co.nz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k2HIQ2tn061258; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 07:26:02 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from andrew@scoop.co.nz) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by a2.scoop.co.nz (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id k2HIQ2nm061254; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 07:26:02 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from andrew@scoop.co.nz) X-Authentication-Warning: a2.scoop.co.nz: andrew owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 07:26:02 +1300 (NZDT) From: Andrew McNaughton To: Eric Anderson In-Reply-To: <441ADD77.1040501@centtech.com> Message-ID: <20060318061814.A18985@a2.scoop.co.nz> References: <20060316145215.Y18985@a2.scoop.co.nz> <4418E5B4.1010903@centtech.com> <441ACD4E.6080305@centtech.com> <20060318044213.F18985@a2.scoop.co.nz> <441ADD77.1040501@centtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0 (a2.scoop.co.nz [127.0.0.1]); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 07:26:02 +1300 (NZDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88/1336/Sat Mar 18 07:06:31 2006 on a2.scoop.co.nz X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: FreeBSD-ISP List Subject: Re: experience with dell DRAC 4? X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:26:14 -0000 On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Eric Anderson wrote: > The least amount of setup needed is to configure the DRAC's IP information, > and of course cabling it up. Once that's done, you can do everything else > remotely (what I did). You can ssh into the DRAC (default u/pw: > admin/calvin), and do lots of things. If you have console redirection > enabled in the BIOS, you can ssh to the DRAC, connect to the console, and use > it to do lots of stuff. I usually use the console redirection feature in the > DRAC web console - it works great with FreeBSD 6.x with jre 1.5 installed, > and gives you the actual video/kb/mouse console as if you were in front of > the machine, great for fixing crashed machines, debugging, etc. > > Now, I just need to get a remote-power-cycling script going on FreeBSD to > reboot a machine automatically.. I gather the DRAC does ipmi as well as console access. If so, then ipmitool makes it easy to script this. eg something like: ipmitool -H -U user -f chassis power cycle Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew McNaughton http://www.scoop.co.nz/ andrew@scoop.co.nz Mobile: +61 422 753 792 pgp keyid: 70F6C32D -- "We are trying to figure out how you conduct a war against something other than a nation-state and how ... you conduct a war in countries that you are not at war with," -- Donald Rumsfeld, 27 Jan 2006