Talk:Dell DRAC

=Generic approach=

We need talk of standards and a more generic discussion and name for all this stuff, to incorporate the various approaches e.g. as described at, including these:


 * IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface), HP (Profile, Products, Articles) iLO (Integrated Lights Out), Dell (Profile, Products, Articles) RAC (Remote Access Card), IBM (Profile, Products, Articles) RSA (Remote Supervisor Adapter), Sun ALOM (Advanced Lights Out Manager), and both IBM’s (Profile, Products, Articles) and HP’s blade management solutions.

--NealMcB 20:06, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Browser compatibility
There's no mention of the severe restrictions on browser compatibility imposed by the various versions of the DRAC. My experience with DRAC 5 and 4 is that browser compatibility is very spotty, and that generally there are things that are broken even if you're using the preferred version of Internet Explorer on Windows. Trying to use Firefox on Linux or another architecture is very hard and generally broken.

I'm going to look for the officially DRAC browser list and add that to the article.

Dbackeberg (talk) 17:17, 11 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Officially, the claim is that Firefox on Linux is supported. There's a catch. To initially install the plugins, Firefox needs to run as root, as it needs the ability to grant the plugin permissions to make directories and copy files into the system-wide Firefox plugins directory. Alternatively, a Linux admin could grant exceptional permissions on the plugins directory. This isn't ordinarily a problem for Windows, because Windows users generally run as a very strong privileged user. Not so for linux users.

Dbackeberg (talk) 17:44, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

dell darc hardware
May I suggest this link as a starting point for a section about the DARC hardware http://blog.ignoranthack.me/?p=86

According with the author, who hacks a little bit the device "Dell DRAC 7 seems to be nothing more than a fancy OpenWRT instance running on a Hitachi SH4A 32bit microprocessor". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ros975 (talk • contribs) 15:11, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

Removed patent claim
Removed the claim of the technology being based on a specific patent as it was based on the author´s interpretation of a primary source alone, as per WP:NOTRS: "All interpretive claims, analyses, or synthetic claims about primary sources must be referenced to a secondary source, rather than original analysis of the primary-source material by Wikipedia editors."

Minstrel1977 (talk) 19:35, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
 * , The statement that a particular technology is based on a particular patent requires citation to a reliable secondary source. Otherwise it is an interpretive claim that constitutes original research. See WP:NOTRS. Also as per the Bold, revert, discuss cycle, it is strongly preferred that once edits have been reverted in good faith, editors discuss and try to achieve consensus on the relevant article talk page, not re-revert. DES (talk) 22:29, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

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IDRAC6, and Most Likely IDRAC7 are actually VxWorks with U-boot
I have discovered some supporting information that can easily be corroborated by anyone who can launch a hex editor. The statements by another that the IDRAC seemed to be nothing more than a modified WRT device can now be considered false.

The IDRAC 6, and most likely the IDRAC 7 are VxWorks QNX Linux with a U-Boot bootloader running on what appears to be an ARM SOC or simular inside the server. Anyone who would like to verify this, simply download the firmware image for the IDRAC 6 version 2.90, and then load the file in a hex editor and scroll down near the bottom of the file. You will find the U-boot bootloader, and a lot of the plain-text, human-readable data there in the string table clearly referencing the VxWorks bootup processes, you will find the following string that seems to shed the most light "NetBSD  Linux   VxWorks QNX U-Boot"

Other systems that use VxWorks are sonicwall firewalls, some Dell Powerconnect switches and Powervault units, and many NASA projects as well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.124.84.19 (talk) 06:11, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

"over the internet"
Can I suggest that part be replaced with  "over an IPv4 or IPv6 based network"  ? Hanging your server's console on the internet directly is not recommended. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Criggie (talk • contribs) 02:05, 5 March 2019 (UTC)