Recently I had an opportunity to work with several new Dell PowerEdge R810 physical servers. I needed to remotely connect to the console of these servers and found out they were equipped with Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 – Enterprise (iDRAC) cards. Since I had several of these to configure — and as a scripter am fundamentally opposed to doing things manually — I started researching how to script this. <\/p>\n
After a bit of Googling, I found out that Dell has a RACADM command that can be used to configure the iDRAC. You can get the Dell RAC configuration utility from Dell<\/a>. After installing the utility, I opened a command prompt and retreived the configuration from an existing R810 using the following syntax:<\/p>\n Looking through the exported configuration, I found several groups and objects that I wanted to specify in my scripted configuration. Command line switches exist so that you can import an entire configuration file, but I wanted to prompt for certain values and only update the items I wanted to specifically change. Not wanting to dwell on the script for too long, I put something together rather quick using a simple batch file. Here is that code…please feel free to offer suggestions or better solutions in the comments!<\/p>\n Recently I had an opportunity to work with several new Dell PowerEdge R810 physical servers. I needed to remotely connect to the console of these servers and found out they were equipped with Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 – … Continue reading racadm -r 192.168.252.108 -u root -p calvin getconfig -f C:\\252-108_config.cfg<\/pre>\n
\r\n@echo off\r\n\r\nset \/P dracIP=\"Please enter the IP address of the DRAC: \"\r\nset \/P dracName=\"Please enter the name of the server to configure: \"\r\nset \/P dracDomain=\"Please enter the DNS domain name to use: \"\r\n\r\n\r\necho These commands need issued individually as the pass arguments from the environment to the server\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgLanNetworking -o cfgDNSRacName %dracName%rac\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgLanNetworking -o cfgDNSDomainName %dracDomain%\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgLanNetworking -o cfgDNSRegisterRac 1\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgLanNetworking -o cfgDNSServer1 192.168.8.8\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgLanNetworking -o cfgDNSServer2 10.168.8.4\r\n\r\nREM pause\r\necho These commands are going to enable Active Directory Standard Schema configs\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgActiveDirectory -o cfgADEnable 1\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgActiveDirectory -o cfgADType 2\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgActiveDirectory -o cfgADCertValidationEnable 0\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgActiveDirectory -o cfgADDcSRVLookupEnable 1\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgActiveDirectory -o cfgADDcSRVLookupbyUserdomain 1\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgActiveDirectory -o cfgADGcSRVLookupEnable 1\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgActiveDirectory -o cfgADGcRootDomain test.local\r\n\r\nREM echo Configure domains to login with\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgUserDomain -i 1 -o cfgUserDomainName test.local\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgUserDomain -i 2 -o cfgUserDomainName admin.test.local\r\n\r\necho Make the DRACAdmin an Administrator\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgStandardSchema -i 1 -o cfgSSADRoleGroupName DRACAdmin\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgStandardSchema -i 1 -o cfgSSADRoleGroupDomain admin.test.local\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgStandardSchema -i 1 -o cfgSSADRoleGroupPrivilege 0x000001ff\r\n\r\necho Make the DRACUser an Operator\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgStandardSchema -i 2 -o cfgSSADRoleGroupName DRACUser\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgStandardSchema -i 2 -o cfgSSADRoleGroupDomain admin.test.local\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgStandardSchema -i 2 -o cfgSSADRoleGroupPrivilege 0x000001f3\r\n\r\nREM pause\r\necho Make\/update the local account\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgUserAdmin -i 3 -o cfgUserAdminUserName MyAdminUser\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgUserAdmin -i 3 -o cfgUserAdminPassword MyAdminP@ss\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgUserAdmin -i 3 -o cfgUserAdminEnable 1\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgUserAdmin -i 3 -o cfgUserAdminPrivilege 0x000001ff\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgUserAdmin -i 3 -o cfgUserAdminIpmiLanPrivilege 4\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgUserAdmin -i 3 -o cfgUserAdminIpmiSerialPrivilege 4\r\nracadm -r %dracIP% -u root -p calvin config -g cfgUserAdmin -i 3 -o cfgUserAdminSolEnable 0\r\n\r\n\r\nEcho Please verify settings and disable\/change password on root if everything is in order\r\nEcho Thanks!\r\npause\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"