Users Guide

Feature Basic
Mana
geme
nt
(iDRA
C7)
iDRAC
8 Basic
iDRAC
7
Expres
s
iDRAC
8
Expres
s
iDRAC
7
Expre
ss for
Blades
iDRAC8
Express
for Blades
iDRAC7
Enterprise
iDRAC8
Enterprise
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] 500 series and lower rack and tower servers require a hardware card to enable this feature; this
hardware is offered at additional cost.
[2] Requires vFlash SD card media.
[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.
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