Users Guide

The remote RACADM is enabled or disabled based on the selection.
Enabling or disabling remote RACADM using RACADM
NOTE: It is recommended to run these commands on the local system.
• To disable remote RACADM:
racadm set iDRAC.Racadm.Enable 0
• To enable remote RACADM:
racadm set iDRAC.Racadm.Enable 1
Disabling local RACADM
The local RACADM is enabled by default. To disable, see Disabling access to modify iDRAC conguration settings on host system.
Enabling IPMI on managed system
On a managed system, use the Dell Open Manage Server Administrator to enable or disable IPMI. For more information, see the Dell Open
Manage Server Administrator’s User Guide at dell.com/support/manuals.
NOTE: From iDRAC v2.30.30.30 or later, IPMI supports IPv6 address protocol for Linux-based operating systems.
Conguring Linux for serial console during boot
The following steps are specic to the Linux GRand Unied Bootloader (GRUB). Similar changes are required if a dierent boot loader is
used.
NOTE
: When you congure the client VT100 emulation window, set the window or application that is displaying the redirected
Virtual Console to 25 rows x 80 columns to make sure the correct text displays. Else, some text screens may be garbled.
Edit the /etc/grub.conf le as follows:
1 Locate the General Setting sections in the le and add the following:
serial --unit=1 --speed=57600 terminal --timeout=10 serial
2 Append two options to the kernel line:
kernel ............. console=ttyS1,115200n8r console=tty1
3 Disable GRUB's graphical interface and use the text-based interface. Else, the GRUB screen is not displayed in RAC Virtual Console. To
disable the graphical interface, comment-out the line starting with
splashimage.
The following example provides a sample /etc/grub.conf le that shows the changes described in this procedure.
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that all
# kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, e.g.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sdal
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=10
#splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
serial --unit=1 --speed=57600
terminal --timeout=10 serial
title Red Hat Linux Advanced Server (2.4.9-e.3smp) root (hd0,0)
Setting up iDRAC communication
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