Users Guide

Table 1. Licensed features in iDRAC7 and iDRAC8 (continued)
Feature Basic
Manage
ment
(iDRAC
7)
iDRAC8
Basic
iDRAC7
Express
iDRAC8
Express
iDRAC7
Express
for
Blades
iDRAC8
Express for
Blades
iDRAC7
Enterprise
iDRAC8
Enterprise
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 2. 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.
To access iDRAC Settings utility, press <F2> during boot and then click iDRAC Settings on the
System Setup Main Menu page.
iDRAC web Interface Use the iDRAC web interface to manage iDRAC and monitor the managed system. The browser
connects to the web server through the HTTPS port. Data streams are encrypted using 128-bit SSL
to provide privacy and integrity. Any connection to the HTTP port is redirected to HTTPS.
Administrators can upload their own SSL certificate through an SSL CSR generation process to
secure the web server. The default HTTP and HTTPS ports can be changed. The user access is
based on user privileges.
RACADM Use this command-line utility to perform iDRAC and server management. You can use RACADM
locally and remotely.
● Local RACADM command-line interface runs on the managed systems that have Server
Administrator installed. Local RACADM communicates with iDRAC through its in-band IPMI host
interface. Since it is installed on the local managed system, users are required to log in to the
operating system to run this utility. A user must have a full administrator privilege or be a root
user to use this utility.
● Remote RACADM is a client utility that runs on a management station. It uses the out-of-band
network interface to run RACADM commands on the managed system and uses the HTTPs
channel. The –r option runs the RACADM command over a network.
● Firmware RACADM is accessible by logging in to iDRAC using SSH or telnet. You can run the
firmware RACADM commands without specifying the iDRAC IP, user name, or password.
● You do not have to specify the iDRAC IP, user name, or password to run the firmware RACADM
commands. After you enter the RACADM prompt, you can directly run the commands without
the racadm prefix.
24 Overview