Dell’s DRAC out-of-band management system

This is a collection of notes and workarounds to get most use out of DRAC.

Most of this applies to the iDRAC6 Enterprise flavor. Exceptions are noted.

iDRAC6 Enterprise provides both three ways to interact with it:

1. SSH-based command line
2. web-based graphical user interface
3. IPMI-based (more standard, more limited) interface accessible via special client software

• Remote console loses keyboard focus
• Remote console doesn’t launch
• Arrow keys etc don’t work in DRAC remote console
• How to fix serial console in use error
• SSH RSA keys must be <=2047 bits
• Browser Refuses SSL Certificates