Dell - Internal Use - Confidential When you enable BIOS redirection, do you see BIOS menus on the serial port? Also what baud rates are you using for BIOS, iDRAC and minicom? Regards, Elie
From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of Cameron Smith Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 7:31 PM To: Adonis Peralta Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: Re: [Linux-PowerEdge] iDRAC6 Serial Access to RACADM iDRAC has the ability to change the port for ssh to something other than 22. It also has the ability to upload ssh keys so you make the password complex and rely on the keys. Sorry I don't have more help for serial access to DRAC. Cameron Smith Technical Operations Manager Network Redux, LLC 5200 SW Macadam Ave Ste 450 Portland, Oregon 97239 Cell: 503-926-4928 On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Adonis Peralta <doni...@gmail.com<mailto:doni...@gmail.com>> wrote: Yea, unfortunately the scenario I'm trying to handle is a bit different. My iDrac is on a public facing network unfortunately without much of a choice so I have ssh disabled remote ipmi disabled and only allow access to a few ips. I do this for security hardening. The problem becomes that those Ips can change and I'll be locked out of iDrac when they do. I have access to local ipmi via the os but I cant disable the IP filtering via ipmi because I dont know the raw command to do it (if there is one). That leaves one option for me which is connect via serial :(. Really looking for some suggestions on this. On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 7:33 PM Cameron Smith <came...@networkredux.com<mailto:came...@networkredux.com>> wrote: I usually just ssh to the DRAC IP to run racadm commands Cameron Smith Technical Operations Manager Network Redux, LLC 5200 SW Macadam Ave Ste 450 Portland, Oregon 97239 Cell: 503-926-4928<tel:503-926-4928> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Adonis Peralta <doni...@gmail.com<mailto:doni...@gmail.com>> wrote: For the life of me I can’t figure out how to connect to the iDRAC6 (racadm login) (Im on a Dell R710 - iDRAC6 Enterprise) via the serial port. I go into the bios and have Serial with Console Redirection to COM2. I then Enable RACADM serial via the web gui. I then proceed to try to connect to the COM2 serial port via minicom and I just keep getting nothing. Minicom says not connected - Just a blank screen. I followed the manual and performed the <Esc> + <Shift> <9> command and nothing. I also went into the bios and remove the console redirection so that it’d just say Serial enabled without console redirection. I then set external console port to COM2 and still nothing. Same problem. I am not trying to connect to the serial console (a display of what the OS has). I want to serial into the iDRAC itself so that I can run the racadm commands. Looking at the manual it implies this can be done but nothing I am trying works. Thanks, Adonis _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com<mailto:Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com> https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
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