Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC iDRAC Service Module 3.4 User’s Guide
- Contents
- Introduction
- Preinstallation setup
- Installing iDRAC Service Module
- Initial installation of iDRAC Service Module through iDRAC for Windows
- Initial installation of iSM through iDRAC Express
- Initial installation of iDRAC Service Module via iDRAC for Linux
- Installing iDRAC Service Module on Microsoft Windows operating systems
- Installing iDRAC Service Module on supported Linux operating systems
- Installing the iDRAC Service Module on VMware ESXi
- Installing iDRAC Service Module when the System Configuration Lock Down Mode is enabled
- Configuring the iDRAC Service Module
- iDRAC Service Module monitoring features
- Operating system information
- Lifecycle Controller log replication into operating system
- Automatic System Recovery
- Windows Management Instrumentation Providers
- Prepare to remove NVMe PCIe SSD device
- Remote iDRAC hard reset
- iDRAC access via Host OS
- Accessing iDRAC Via GUI, WS-man, Redfish, Remote RACADM
- In-band support for iDRAC SNMP alerts
- Enable WSMAN Remotely
- Auto-updating iDRAC Service Module
- FullPowerCycle
- SupportAssist on the Box
- Enabling the In-band SNMP Get feature—Linux
- Enabling the In-band SNMP Get feature—Windows
- iDRAC GUI Launcher
- Single sign-on (SSO) to iDRAC GUI from Host OS administrators desktop
- IPv6 communication between iSM and iDRAC over OS-BMC Passthru
- Enhanced security between iSM and iDRAC communication using TLS protocol
- Frequently asked questions
- Linux and Ubuntu installer packages
Microsoft Windows OS, I see a console message saying
"The system cannot find the file specified."
After iSM is installed successfully, the logical partition SMINST gets unmounted from the Host OS. This message appears if the
BAT script is invoked from the SMINST partition itself. The installation is successful. No action is required by the user.
If dependent packages for iSM are not present on Ubuntu
OS, then installation through OS DUP installs iSM in
install+unpacked state. You can verify this using the below
command:
#dpkg -s dcism
Package: dcism
Status: install ok unpacked
To fix this issue, run the command apt-get install -f. This will install dependent packages.
When I install iSM 3.4.0 on Linux operating systems such
as RedHat Enterprise Linux, I see some messages in
OS logs such as G_IS_SIMPLE_ACTION (simple)' failed:
failed to rescan: Failed to parse /usr/share/applications/
iDRACGUILauncher.desktop file: cannot process file of type
application/x-desktop.
The messages are related to the GNOME desktop manager. Various OS groups have Bugzilla items for this scenario to be
addressed. For example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1594177. No action is required by the user.
I see a blank terminal on RHEL 6.10 or RHEL 7.6 when
I click on iDRAC GUI Launcher shortcut from Menu >
Accessories.
The visibility of text on the terminal depends on GNOME version on the resident OS. An alternative is to run the launcher from a
GUI-capable shell. For example: bash#> sh /opt/dell/srvadmin/iSM/bin/iDRACLauncher.sh as a sudo user.
In case, the OS-to-iDRAC Passthru is disabled in iDRAC, the user will see a blank terminal when iDRAC GUI is launched from the
Linux OS such as RHEL 6.10 and RHEL 7.6. Select y or Y, and press Enter to indicate configuration of USBNIC interface on the
Host OS.
Alternatively, you can enable the OS-to-iDRAC Passthru in iDRAC in USBNIC mode and re-run the iDRAC launcher from the
Host OS.
Frequently asked questions
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