out-of-band remote access

[John Heim]

Another tip is that if you call Dell tech support, they are going to ask you 
to look on the chassis for the service tag. But you can get it with the 
getSystemId command instead.  I think that works on any Dell machine, not 
just servers.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at lava-net.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: out-of-band remote access


> Thanks John, will definitely check that out.
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 01:33:27PM -0600, John Heim wrote:
>> There is a wiki page for the DRAC on the IAVIT web site. See
>> http://wiki.iavit.org/index.php/Dell_Remote_Access_Card
>>
>> PS: You might consider joining the talk at iavit.org list to ask
>> questions like this. Its a more general list than this list. IAVIT
>> is the International Association of Visually Impaired Technologists.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Igor Gueths"
>> <igueths at lava-net.com>
>> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 10:49 AM
>> Subject: OT: out-of-band remote access
>>
>>
>> >Hi all. Just wondered if anyone has ever used any out-of-band
>> >remote access
>> >stuff with Speakup/SSH successfully? Specifically, I'm curious to
>> >know if Anyone
>> >has gotten anything useful out of a DRAC. The information I have
>> >been able to
>> >turn up so far suggests that one can redirect the serial console over 
>> >SSH,
>> >presuming that serial access is configured already on the local machine. 
>> >I
>> >haven't actually gotten this to work in practice though, and not
>> >sure if I'm
>> >still missing something. Thanks!
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>> >Igor
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