The Dell C6100 and IPMI / DRAC / MegaRAC

Over the last year Google Analytics says I’ve been getting a lot of hits from search that indicate there are some folks who want to know how the C-series DRAC works.

It is easy enough to setup like any other IPMI/DRAC system.

First you’ll need to plug the IPMI/Management Ethernet port into your network (preferably an our of band (OOB) network seperate from your production network). In the BIOS, make sure the management port is set to ‘Dedicated’, earlier ones shipped with it set to ‘Shared’ by default which precluded the dedicated IPMI port.

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