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Nagios plugin with M630
HI,I just setup the Dell Nagios Plugin to monitor my new M630 servers. I'm running it on Debian 6, with Nagios 3.5.1. I setup racadm utility, openwsm, and all the needed requirements. Most of the check...
View ArticleDell laptop saying it only has 27 gigs of space
A friend of mine just got a laptop and its saying his hard drive space is 27.5 gigs of space. I we're probably both stupid but I'm awful with computers and have no clue whats going on
View ArticleM620 blade server iDRAC7 1.46.45 update to iDRAC7/8 2.21.21.21
Hello! This is my first post here. I have been reading the forum for help with firmware update tasks. Thanks for all the info!Now for my current situation... I have 23 Dell PowerEdge M620 blade servers...
View ArticleOMSA v4.5 Uninstall on Windows Server 2008 x86
Had old PowerEdge 2550 server running Windows Server 2003 & OMSA v4.5 installed. Retired hardware system & imported system into VMware ESXi. Upgraded from Windows Server 2003 to Windows...
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Added a drive to my array, added to virtual disk, but can't allocate the...
I have a PowerVault running Storage Server 2008r2 that had 8 drives in a RAID housing a virtual disk (forgive me if my terminology isn't perfect...how it came from Dell). I needed to add space to that...
View ArticleiDRAC EXPRESS part number for T710
Hello,the iDRAC EXPRESS modules in my T710 failed and I'm looking to replace it but the dell part numbers for this seem all over the place.On the support site, the configuration breakdown for my server...
View ArticleGetting 'Network connect error' when trying to establish a KVM session on 2161AD
We recently bought a Remote Access Key for a Dell 2161AD KVM that we have.I can log in to the KVM and see the attached devices and they are all showing as Idle.When I click on any of the 'KVM Session'...
View ArticleClearing Critical VRTX Chassis Alerts
When I sign into the VRTX CMC GUI for a particular system, there are two Critical Alerts on the Chassis Overview > Properties > Health page (which is the default homepage). The lights on the...
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Dell Command Configure - Activate TPM - EXE not working
I have created an .EXE file from Command Configure to set the BIOS password, enable TPM and activate it then enable Wake On Lan.I have tested it successfully on an optiplex7010 but for some reason when...
View ArticleIDRAC virtual console - Ubuntu
Hello,I have a Dell Server PowerEdge R220 that comes with iDRAC for remote management.As my client I am using Ubuntu and am trying to launch the virtual console in chrome - this downloads `viewer.jnpl`...
View Articlehard drive not recognized when reinstalling Windows 7-64bit or Windows 10 Ent...
Why the hard drive not recognized when reinstalling Windows 7-64bit or Windows 10 Ent on DELL Precision T3600 systemThanks
View ArticleActive Directory authentication to the iDRAC
Is it possible to set up AD authentication for a single DRAC user without having to create an AD group for them?Thanks.
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Dell Command Configure (CCTK) - Setting Thunderbolt Boot Support?
Hello,For the Precision 5510 I am having issues finding the correct Command | Configure settings for the two BIOS settings shown in the attached image.The two thunderbolt options I can find do not...
View ArticleiDRAC8 summary page empty after FW Update to V2.30.30.30
Hi there!After updating my iDRAC8 with the FW V2.30.30.30 the "Server => Summary" page is empty.Also the new HTML5 virtual console does not seem to work. In the Virtual Console settings I can select...
View ArticleTrouble importing iSM 2.3 into vSphere Update Manager (solved)
vSphere Update Manager refused to import the ISM-Dell-Web-2.3.0-223.VIB-ESX60i_A00.zip - saying it's an invalid package.Turned out the vendor-index.xml inside the zip file has duplicated...
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Dell Poweredge T310 PERC H200A - Can you create to RAID 1 Volumes
I have a server running SBS 2008 on a RAID 1 Volume (Using to 512GB SATA Drives).Server is nearing disk capacity and I want to upgrade system so it is running on a 1 TB RAID 1 Volume.As the server had...
View Articlesystem crash
says I need a MS DOS disk which is damaged wanting to go ahead and upgrade to windows ten. should i do that first or contact after warenty support for a ms dos disk.
View ArticleiDRAC 6 update failed, recovery unsuccessful
Hi,It is my first post here, so hi everybody.I have received a bunch of r610s with very old iDRAC firmwares. I have updated all except one of them successfully.I researched the problem and found a...
View ArticleInstallation of Dell Open Manage Server Administrator on ESX 4.1
Hello, Our core system is based on cluster running ESX 4.1 where we'd like to install Open Manage Server Administrator on the two server nods creating the cluster. We did some test in our lab and...
View ArticleNew FX2s's - questions - don't want to wait for ProDeploy calls
We have a couple new FX2s's, and cannot locate certain config options.FX2s w/ 4 x FC630: I want to un-map all the PCIe cards from the FC630's. I cannot see how to do this, and the docs don't help.FX2s...
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