Users Guide

Table 2. Licensed features in iDRAC7 and iDRAC8
Feature Basic
Manage
ment
(iDRAC
7)
iDRAC8
Basic
iDRAC7
Express
iDRAC8
Express
iDRAC7
Express
for
Blades
iDRAC8
Express for
Blades
iDRAC7
Enterprise
iDRAC8
Enterprise
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 offered 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.
Table 3. Interfaces and protocols to access iDRAC
Interface or Protocol Description
iDRAC Settings Utility
Use the iDRAC Settings utility to perform pre-OS operations. It has a subset of the features that are
available in iDRAC web interface along with other features.
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