Users Guide

Feature Basic
Manage
ment
(iDRAC7
)
iDRAC8
Basic
iDRAC7
Express
iDRAC8
Express
iDRAC7
Express
for
Blades
iDRAC8
Express for
Blades
iDRAC7
Enterprise
iDRAC8
Enterprise
iDRAC Direct (front USB
management port)
No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes
iDRAC Service Module
(iSM)
No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SupportAssist Collection
(embedded)
No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Crash screen capture
5
No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Crash video capture
5
No No No No No No Yes Yes
Boot capture No No No No No No Yes Yes
Manual reset for iDRAC No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes
Virtual NMI No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes
OS watchdog No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes
Embedded Health
Report
No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes
System Event Log No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Lifecycle Log No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes
Work notes No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes
Remote Syslog No No No No No No Yes Yes
License management No Yes No Yes No Yes No Yes
[1] Requires vFlash SD card media.
[2] 500 series and lower rack and tower servers require a hardware card to enable this feature; this hardware is oered at additional cost.
[3] Remote agent-free update feature is available only using IPMI.
[4] Available only using IPMI.
[5] Requires OMSA agent on target server.
Interfaces and protocols to access iDRAC
The following table lists the interfaces to access iDRAC.
NOTE
: Using more than one interface at the same time may generate unexpected results.
26 Overview