How badly do you have to screw up BMC firmware that a bunch of servers with BMCs sitting there doing nothing crash more often than not? And no watchdog, seriously? No service restarts?
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For fuck's sake, @Dell. I have 15 servers with iDRAC basic in a cluster. *13* have crashed BMCs have in some way (web dead, IPMI dead, or both). Two of those are so screwed I have no way to reset them without physically going to the datacenter. What the fuck.
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We would be happy to help with the iDrac issue. Would you confirm any errors seen, the model servers this is happening to, as well as if the BIOS and iDrac are current and up to date on those systems? Thank you ^CH
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These are PowerEdge R320 systems that were running iDRAC version 2.0f. I managed to reset most of them via ipmitool (and update them to 2.60), but two remain wedged. One responds to neither web nor IPMI. The other responds via web and SSH, but logins fail.
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there's a easy way to fix without going there, ask for your data center to cut energy specifically from that machine, sometimes they can remotely do it or send a human to yank the cable out and in
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I don't think they can do that at this DC.
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I was considering purchasing some iDRAC licenses but now not so sure...
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Makes me glad I've stuck with Gen 11, none of that licensing garbage. Buy the module and go.
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Clearly, we need BMCs for the BMCs, for cases like this..
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I routinely see iDRACs wedged that require draining flea power to restore services.
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