Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC iDRAC Service Module 3.6 User’s Guide
- Introduction
- Preinstallation setup
- Installing iDRAC Service Module
- Initial installation of iDRAC Service Module through iDRAC Enterprise or Datacenter or iDRAC Express on Microsoft Windows and Linux
- Installing iDRAC Service Module on Microsoft Windows operating systems
- Silent installation of iDRAC Service Module on Microsoft Windows
- Modifying iDRAC Service Module components on Microsoft Windows operating systems
- Repairing iDRAC Service Module running on Microsoft Windows operating systems
- Uninstalling iDRAC Service Module running on Microsoft Windows operating systems
- Installing the iDRAC Service Module on VMware ESXi
- Installing iDRAC Service Module on supported Linux operating systems
- Installing iDRAC Service Module when System Configuration Lock Down Mode is enabled in iDRAC
- Configuring iDRAC Servcie Module
- Security configurations and compatibility
- iSM monitoring features
- S.M.A.R.T monitoring
- Operating system information
- Lifecycle Controller log replication into operating system
- Automatic system recovery
- Windows Management Instrumentation Providers
- Prepare to remove a NVMe PCIe SSD device
- Remote iDRAC hard reset
- iDRAC access via Host OS
- Accessing iDRAC via GUI, WS-Man, Redfish, and Remote RACADM
- In-Band support for iDRAC SNMP alerts
- Enable WS-Man remotely
- Autoupdating iSM
- FullPowerCycle
- SupportAssist on the box
- Configuring the In-Band SNMP Get feature—Linux
- Configuring the In-Band SNMP Get feature—Windows
- iDRAC GUI Launcher
- Single sign-on (SSO) to iDRAC UI from host operating system administrators desktop
- IPv6 communication between iSM and iDRAC over OS-BMC Passthru
- Frequently asked questions
- Linux and Ubuntu installer packages
- Resources and support
- Contacting Dell EMC
Table 1. Features supported by each supported operating system
Features Servers Operating systems
Supported PowerEdge series Microsoft Windows
(including HyperV
systems)
Linux Virtualization
(VMware ESXi)
Single Sign-on (SSO) yx4x, yx5x Yes Yes NA
Auto-update iSM
installation
yx4x, yx5x Yes Yes NA
Server storage(S2D)
correlation
yx3x, yx4x, yx5x Yes NA NA
S.M.A.R.T monitoring
in AHCI Mode
yx3x, yx4x, yx5x Yes Yes Yes
S.M.A.R.T monitoring
in software RAID
mode
yx3x, yx4x, yx5x Yes NA NA
NA - Not applicable
Supported platforms on iDRAC Service Module
The following table lists the supported platforms on iDRAC Service Module.
Table 2. Supported platforms on iDRAC Service Module
yx5x PowerEdge servers yx4x PowerEdge servers yx3x PowerEdge servers yx2x PowerEdge servers
R6515 XE7440 C4130 FM120
R7515 XE7420 C6320 M420
R6525 R240 FC 430 M520
C6525 R340 FC 630 M620
R7525 T140 FC 830 M820
T340 M630 R220
R740xd2 M630-VRTX R320
R840 M830 R420
R940 xa R230 R620
MX740c R330 R720
MX840c R430 R720 XD
R7425 R530 R820
R7415 R630 R920
R6415 R730 T320
C6420 R730xd T420
FC 640 R830 T620
M640 R930
M640-VRTX T130
R440 T330
R540 T430
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