We migrated systems from one colocation to another and re-thought our entire VLAN structure. All IPMI\/iDrac\/iLO\/out of band management was segmented off into another VLAN for easier support and DHCP enabled. Unfortunately our e-mail servers didn’t get the memo about the IP change; sure, their network cables were moved to the new VLAN, but the IP address was not changed to either that network or a DHCP enabled state.<\/p>\n
We didn’t find out until this morning when we attempted to revive an email server that had fallen flat on its face. Lesson learned.<\/p>\n
That being said, I had always changed iDrac settings on these servers via the BIOS or lifecycle controller. I didn’t want to reboot the box again just to set an out of band management interface, so what was I to do?<\/p>\n
Google!<\/p>\n
Anyway, here’s the brief list of commands you can run if you have Dell Open Manage installed on your computer (with a simple ADMIN cmd.exe window) Set Static IPv4<\/strong> Set Static IPv6<\/strong> Set DHCP<\/strong> Turn off or turn on the port<\/strong> Whole bunch of stuff here http:\/\/www.dell.com\/support\/Manuals\/us\/en\/19\/Topic\/idrac8-with-lc-v2.05.05.05\/RACADM_iDRAC_Pub-v1\/en-us\/GUID-03779EB2-C1FE-4E33-A82F-71A18E85CE5F<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We migrated systems from one colocation to another and re-thought our entire VLAN structure. All IPMI\/iDrac\/iLO\/out of band management was segmented off into another VLAN for easier support and DHCP enabled. Unfortunately our e-mail servers didn’t get the memo about the IP change; sure, their network cables were moved to the new VLAN, but the … Continue reading OpenManage and iDrac<\/span>
\nGet current configuration<\/strong>
\nracadm getniccfg<\/code><\/p>\n
\nracadm setniccfg -s IPADDRESS NETMASK GATEWAY<\/code><\/p>\n
\nracadm setniccfg -s6 IPV6ADDRESS PREFIXLENGTH GATEWAY<\/code><\/p>\n
\nracadm setniccfg -d<\/code><\/p>\n
\nracadm setniccfg -o<\/code><\/p>\n