Users Guide

• Protocol used to discover the server and DRAC/iDRAC. For example, IPMI, SNMP, and so on.
• If Server Administrator is installed on the server.
• Settings enabled on the DRAC/iDRAC.
Selecting the Enable All check box allows you to override device capability and allows all the available
devices for selection as task targets.
The following device capability matrix provides information about the type of remote tasks supported on
devices when the device capabilities are overridden.
Remote Task
Type
All Servers
(except ESXi)
With Server
Administrator
and
Discovered
Using
SNMP/WMI
Windows-
based Servers
without Server
Administrator
and discovered
using WMI
Linux-based
Servers
without Server
Administrator
and discovered
using SSH
DRAC/iDRAC
discovered
using IPMI
DRAC/iDRAC
discovered
using SNMP/
WS-Man
DRAC/iDRAC is not discovered Server operating system is not
discovered
Reboot/power
cycle operation
Supported Supported Not supported Not supported Not supported
Power off
operation
Supported Supported Not supported Not supported Not supported
Power on
operation
Supported if:
DRAC/iDRAC
information is
retrieved and
displayed in the
inventory page.
IPMI over LAN
is enabled on
the DRAC/
iDRAC device.
You select
Enable All in
the Tasks
Target tab.
Not supported Not supported Supported Supported if:
IPMI over LAN
is enabled on
the DRAC/
iDRAC device.
You select
Enable All in
the Tasks
Target tab.
Remote Server
Administrator
command task
Not supported Not supported Not supported
IPMI command
task
Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported
RACADM
command line
task
Supported if:
DRAC/iDRAC
information is
retrieved and
displayed in the
inventory page.
You select
Enable All in
Not supported Not supported Not supported Supported
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