The integrated Dell Remote Access Controller or DRAC (iDRAC) is an out-of-band management platform on certain Dell servers. It provides functionality that helps you deploy, update, monitor and maintain Dell PowerEdge servers with or without a systems management software agent.
A preliminary implementation of iLO (Integrated Lights Out) KVM is available for version iLO 3 and iLO 4.
A simple CLI launcher for Dell DRAC and HP iLO KVM sessions
This has been tested on the following Dell servers:
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11th Generation (eg: Dell R710 / iDRAC6)
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12th Generation (eg: Dell R720 / iDRAC7)
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13th Generation (eg: Dell R730 / iDRAC8)
This has been tested on the following HP servers:
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7th Generation (eg: HP DL120 G7)
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8th Generation (eg: HP DL160 G8)
It requires that you have java installed on your machine (specifically the
javaws binary).
docker run \
-e DISPLAY=${DISPLAY} \
-e XAUTHORITY=/tmp/.Xauthority \
-v ${HOME}/.Xauthority:/tmp/.Xauthority \
-v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
rockyluke/drac-kvmbrew install socat
DISPLAY_ADDRESS=$(ifconfig|grep 'inet '|grep -v '127.0.0.1'| head -1|awk '{print $2}')
socat TCP-LISTEN:6001,reuseaddr,fork UNIX-CLIENT:\"$DISPLAY\" &
docker run \
-e DISPLAY=${DISPLAY_ADDRESS} \
-e XAUTHORITY=/tmp/.Xauthority \
-v ${HOME}/.Xauthority:/tmp/.Xauthority \
-v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
rockyluke/drac-kvmIf you already have Go configured on your system then you can just run the following to quickly install it:
go get github.com/rockyluke/drac-kvmIf you already have Homebrew configured on your system then you can just run the following to quickly install it:
brew tap rockyluke/devops
brew install drac-kvmFed up of logging into the DRAC web interface just to launch a KVM session? This simple Go program should help ease the pain.
drac-kvm --help
Usage of drac-kvm
-h, --host="some.hostname.com": The DRAC host (or IP)
-j, --javaws="/usr/bin/javaws": The path to javaws binary
-p, --password=false: Prompt for password (optional, will use 'calvin' if not present)
-u, --username="": The DRAC username
-v, --version=-1: iDRAC version (6, 7 or 8)drac-kvm -h 10.25.1.100
2014/06/26 16:01:11 Detecting iDRAC version...
2014/06/26 16:01:11 Found iDRAC version 7
2014/06/26 16:01:11 Launching DRAC KVM session to 10.25.1.100drac-kvm -h 10.25.1.100 -u bob -p
Password: **********
2014/06/26 16:01:11 Detecting iRAC version...
2014/06/26 16:01:11 Found iDRAC version 7
2014/06/26 16:01:11 Launching DRAC KVM session to 10.25.1.100You can create a configuration file
cat ~/.drackvmrc
# Override the hardcoded defaults for username and password.
# Useful if your environment has consistent usernames and
# passwords for the KVMs.
[defaults]
username = foo
password = bar
[192.168.0.42]
username = foo
password = bar
[web-1]
host = 10.33.0.1
username = root
password = password4root
[web-2]
host = 10.33.0.2
username = root# Use IP, username and password from drackvmrc for this ip
drac-kvm -h 192.168.0.42
2014/06/26 16:01:11 Detecting iRAC version...
2014/06/26 16:01:11 Found iDRAC version 7
2014/06/26 16:01:11 Launching DRAC KVM session to 192.168.0.42
# Same for host alias web-1
drac-kvm -h web-1
2014/06/26 16:01:11 Detecting iRAC version...
2014/06/26 16:01:11 Found iDRAC version 7
2014/06/26 16:01:11 Launching DRAC KVM session to 10.33.0.1
# Specify -p option in order to do not use defaut password
drac-kvm -h web-2 -p
Password: **********
2014/06/26 16:01:11 Detecting iRAC version...
2014/06/26 16:01:11 Found iDRAC version 7
2014/06/26 16:01:11 Launching DRAC KVM session to 10.33.0.2@jamesdotcuff's helpful blog post:
http://blog.jcuff.net/2013/10/fun-with-idrac.html
Feel free to contribute on GitHub.
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