The Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) is an optional BMC used in Dell servers. Much like with HP's ILOM there is a command line utility provided (in this case racadm) in order to interact with it, fetching and setting config
This page is a basic cheatsheet of the commands which can be used with it, all should be run from a shell. However, if you prefer to use the interactive mode, run racadm on it's own, and then just omit racadm from the command. The benefit of that approach, is that from (approximately) racadm7 you'll have tab-completion available to help you create commands
Global Config
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Dump config:
racadm get -f config.txt
Restore config from file:
racadm set -f config.txt
Restore factory defaults:
racadm racresetcfg
Get Serial Number:
racadm getsvctag
Get System information:
racadm getsysinfo
Misc Options
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Disable Hyperthreading (Damn you Intel!):
racadm set BIOS.ProcSettings.LogicalProc Disabled
Set SNMP public community string:
racadm set iDRAC.SNMP.AgentCommunity NEW STRING
IDRAC root Account
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Set Password:
racadm set iDRAC.Users.2.Password MYNEWPASSWORD
List SSH keys:
racadm sshpkauth -i 2 -v -k all
Add key:
racadm sshpkauth -i 2 -k 1 "public key string"
Remove key:
(get the id for k from the list of keys)
racadm sshpkauth -i 2 -d -k 1
Network Config
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Get IP config:
racadm getniccfg
racadm get iDRAC.NIC
Set IP Config:
racadm set iDRAC.Nic.Enable 1
racadm set iDRAC.IPv4.Address x.x.x.x
racadm set iDRAC.IPv4.Netmask x.x.x.x
racadm set iDRAC.IPv4.Gateway x.x.x.x
racadm set iDRAC.IPv4.DHCPEnable 0
racadm set iDRAC.IPv4.DNSFromDHCP 0
racadm set iDRAC.IPv4.DNS1 y.y.y.y
racadm set iDRAC.IPv4.DNS2 y.y.y.y
Set DNS name:
racadm set iDRAC.NIC.DNSRacName myiDrac
Set Domain name:
racadm set iDRAC.NIC.DNSDomainName example.com
Set DNS Servers:
racadm config -g cfgLanNetworking -o cfgDNSServer1 x.x.x.x
racadm config -g cfgLanNetworking -o cfgDNSServer2 y.y.y.y
Disable Serial on LAN:
racadm config -g cfgIpmiSol -o cfgIpmiSolEnable 0
LCD
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(Where present)
Set to display iDrac's hostname
racadm set System.LCD.Configuration 16
Display custom text
racadm set system.lcd.lCDUserString "I AM HERE"
Get current custom text
racadm get system.lcd.lCDUserString
Power
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Soft reset:
racadm racreset soft
Hard reset:
racadm racreset hard
Cold reset:
racadm racreset cold
Enable AC POower recovery:
racadm set BIOS.SysSecurity.AcPwdRcvry Last
racadm set BIOS.SysSecurity.AcPwdRcvryDelay Immediate
Server Boot Options
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Configure one-off PXE boot:
racadm set BIOS.OneTimeBoot.OneTimeBootMode OneTimeBootSeq
racadm set BIOS.OneTimeBoot.OneTimeBootSeqDev NIC.Integrated.1-1-1
Set default boot device to Hard Drive:
racadm config -g cfgServerInfo -o cfgServerBootOnce 0
racadm config -g cfgServerInfo -i cfgServerFirstBootDevice HDD
List current boot order:
racadm get BIOS.BiosBootSettings.bootseq
Serial Redirection
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(To allow use of the virtual serial port via SSH)
racadm config -g cfgSerial -o cfgSerialConsoleEnable 1
racadm config -g cfgSerial -o cfgSerialBaudRate 115200
racadm config -g cfgSerial -o cfgSerialCom2RedirEnable 1
racadm config -g cfgSerial -o cfgSerialTelnetEnable 0
racadm config -g cfgSerial -o cfgSerialSshEnable 1
Should now be able to SSH to iDrac and access the vsp via "console com2"
RAID
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Get Physical disk info:
racadm raid get pdisks
Get all info about disks:
racadm raid get pdisks -o
Get just state and size (or pass other fields):
racadm raid get pdisks -o -p state,size
Get Virtual Disks (or Logical Drives in HP Parlance)
racadm raid get vdisks