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● Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
● Ubuntu 12.04.04 LTS
● Debian 7.6 (Wheezy)
● Debian 8.0
On servers with Windows 2008 SP2 64-bit operating system, the iDRAC Virtual CD USB Device is not discovered automatically
(or enabled). You must enable this manually. For more information, see steps recommended by Microsoft to manually update the
Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS) driver for this device.
For Linux operating systems, configure the USB NIC as DHCP on the host operating system before enabling USB NIC.
If the operating system on the host is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, CentOS 6.5, CentOS 7.0, Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, or Ubuntu
12.04.4 LTS then after enabling the USB NIC in iDRAC, you must manually enable DHCP client on the host operating system. For
information to enable DHCP, see the documents for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, CentOS, and Ubuntu operating systems.
For vSphere, you must install the VIB file before enabling USB NIC.
For the following operating systems, if you install the Avahi and nss-mdns packages, then you can use https://idrac.local to
launch the iDRAC from the host operating system. If these packages are not installed, use https://169.254.0.1 to launch the
iDRAC.
Operating
System
Firewall
Status
Avahi Package nss-mdns Package
RHEL 5.9 32–
bit
Disable Install as a separate package
(avahi-0.6.16-10.el5_6.i386.rpm)
Install as a separate package (nss-
mdns-0.10-4.el5.i386.rpm)
RHEL 6.4 64–
bit
Disable Install as a separate package
(avahi-0.6.25-12.el6.x86_64.rpm)
Install as a separate package (nss-
mdns-0.10-8.el6.x86_64.rpm)
SLES 11 SP3
64–bit
Disable Avahi package is the part of operating system
DVD
nss-mdns is installed while installing Avahi
On the host system, while installing RHEL 5.9 operating system, the USB NIC pass-through mode is in disabled state. If
it is enabled after the installation is complete, the network interface corresponding to the USB NIC device is not active
automatically. You can do any of the following to make the USB NIC device active:
● Configure the USB NIC interface using Network Manager tool. Navigate to System > Administrator > Network > Devices
> New > Ethernet Connection and select Dell computer corp.iDRAC Virtual NIC USB Device. Click the Activate icon
to activate the device. For more information, see the RHEL 5.9 documentation.
● Create corresponding interface’s config file as ifcfg-ethX in /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ directory. Add the
basic entries DEVICE, BOOTPROTO, HWADDR, ONBOOT. Add TYPE in the ifcfg-ethX file and restart the network
services using the command service network restart.
● Reboot the system.
● Turn off and turn on the system.
On systems with RHEL 5.9 operating system, if the USB NIC was disabled and if you turn off the system or vice-versa, when
the system is turned on and if the USB NIC is enabled, the USB NIC device is not active automatically. To make it active, check
if any ifcfg-ethX.bak file is available in the /etc/sysconfig/network-script directory for the USB NIC interface. If
it is available, rename it to ifcfg-ethX and then use the ifup ethX command.
Related tasks
Installing VIB file on page 90
Installing VIB file
For vSphere operating systems, before enabling the USB NIC, you must install the VIB file.
To install the VIB file:
1. Using Win-SCP, copy the VIB file to /tmp/ folder of the ESX-i host operating system.
2. Go to the ESXi prompt and run the following command:
esxcli software vib install -v /tmp/ iDRAC_USB_NIC-1.0.0-799733X03.vib --no-sig-check
90
Configuring iDRAC