Hackery

Checking for a Dell DRAC card on linux

Mon 20 May 2013

Tags: dell, drac, linux, sysadmin

Note to self: this seems to be the most reliable way of checking whether
a Dell machine has a DRAC card installed:

sudo ipmitool sdr elist mcloc

If there is, you'll see some kind of DRAC card:

iDRAC6           | 00h | ok  |  7.1 | Dynamic MC @ 20h

If there isn't, you'll see only a base management controller:

BMC              | 00h | ok  |  7.1 | Dynamic MC @ 20h

You need ipmi setup for this (if you haven't already):

# on RHEL/CentOS etc.
yum install OpenIPMI
service ipmi start