Any trick to connect to the DRAC console from a mac

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I have two Dell PowerEdge 2950 with DRAC5 cards, and I'm a mac user, running Snow Leopard.

Is there any trick to benefit from the remote console capability?

I am open to any suggestion, including fancy browser, custom made Java VM, any VM with virtual box at all. Anything except maybe for rebooting under windows…

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It's a pain to use directly from the Mac, so I typically have a Windows XP VM available for management tasks or consoles that require browser plugins, etc. VMware Fusion, Parallels, Virtualbox are all up to the task, but another lightweight solution is CrossOver Mac which allows individual Windows apps to be installed and run.

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Use the dscl command. This example would create the user "luser", like so:

dscl . -create /Users/luser
dscl . -create /Users/luser UserShell /bin/bash
dscl . -create /Users/luser RealName "Lucius Q. User"
dscl . -create /Users/luser UniqueID "1010"
dscl . -create /Users/luser PrimaryGroupID 80
dscl . -create /Users/luser NFSHomeDirectory /Users/luser

You can then use passwd to change the user's password, or use:

dscl . -passwd /Users/luser password

You'll have to create /Users/luser for the user's home directory and change ownership so the user can access it, and be sure that the UniqueID is in fact unique.

This line will add the user to the administrator's group:

dscl . -append /Groups/admin GroupMembership luser

Dell DRAC console sessions won’t time out

You could try the racreset command, this may be available from your OS if you have the OMSA packages installed or you may have to ssh directly the DRAC (assuming it will let you do that).

This will reset the DRAC (taking it offline briefly).

See - http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smdrac3/drac4/1.1/en/ug/racugaa.htm#wp31217

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