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.
Support for Supermicro KVM implementation was added in version 2.0.0.
A simple CLI launcher for Dell DRAC and HP iLO KVM sessions
This has been tested on the following Dell servers:
- 11th Generation (eg: Dell R710 / iDRAC6)
- 12th Generation (eg: Dell R720 / iDRAC7)
- 13th Generation (eg: Dell R730 / iDRAC8)
This has been tested on the following HP servers:
- 7th Generation (eg: HP DL120 G7)
- 8th Generation (eg: HP DL160 G8)
This has been tested on the following SuperMicro servers:
- PCS S2420Q-M5
It requires that you have java installed on your machine (specifically the
javaws binary).
If 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]
vendor = dell
username = foo
password = bar
[web-1]
vendor = hp
host = 10.33.0.1
username = root
password = password4root
[web-2]
vendor = supermicro
host = 10.33.0.2
username = root@jamesdotcuff blog post @PaulMaddox initial release
Feel free to contribute on GitHub.
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