Just recording the power ratings I measured with this plug-in meter and a Dell R210 server. Firstly some base readings with no operating system installed and the machine powered up (with no power applied the Drac Express draws about 26W). No OS, with 2 Seagate 2.5″ drives, 2x4GB RAM, DVD, Drac Express: 60.75W No OS, [...]
Got an iDRAC card in your Dell server and want to generate a 2048 bit certificate signing request? You’ll need to modify the settings on the DRAC to change it from the default 1024 bit request. SSH into the iDRAC and then type the racadm command as indicated: /admin1-> racadm config -g cfgRacSecurity -o cfgRacSecCsrKeySize [...]
Just acquired a new Dell server along with it’s iDRAC 6 lights out management system (LOM). Now I know this LOM supports IPMI version 2 and I know FreeBSD is supports IPMI. I installed ipmitool from the ports collection, but I just could not get this local install of ipmitool to talk to the LOM, [...]
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