Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC iDRAC Service Module 3.4.1 User’s Guide
- Contents
- Introduction
- What’s New
- Supported features—operating systems matrix
- Documentation conventions for Dell EMC devices
- Coexistence of OpenManage Server Administrator and iDRAC Service Module
- Software availability
- Downloading iDRAC Service Module
- Accessing documents from the Dell EMC support site
- Software license agreement
- Other documents you may need
- 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, WSMan, 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
Supported platforms on Linux operating systems
The table lists the platforms that are supported by iDRAC Service Module 3.4 on Linux operating systems.
Table 3. Supported platforms on Linux operating systems
Dell Systems SLES 15 Ubuntu 18.04.2 RHEL 7.6
15th generation servers
R6515 Yes Yes Yes
R7515 Yes Yes Yes
R6525 Yes Yes Yes
C6525 Yes Yes Yes
14th generation servers
T140 Yes Yes No
T340 Yes Yes No
R240 Yes Yes No
R340 Yes Yes No
R740xd2 Yes Yes No
MX740c No Yes No
MX840c No Yes No
R840 Yes Yes No
R940xa Yes Yes No
R7425 Yes No No
R7415 Yes No No
R6415 Yes No No
C6420 Yes Yes No
FC640 Yes Yes No
FD332 Yes Yes No
M640 Yes Yes No
M640-VRTX Yes Yes No
R440 Yes Yes No
R540 Yes Yes No
R640 Yes Yes No
R740 Yes Yes No
R740xd Yes Yes No
R940 Yes Yes No
T440 Yes Yes No
C4140 Yes Yes No
T640 Yes Yes No
13th generation servers
C4130 Yes No No
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