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On servers with Windows 2008 SP2 64-bit operating system, the iDRAC Virtual CD USB Device is not discovered
automatically (or enabled). You must enable this manually. For more information, see steps recommended by Microsoft
to manually update the Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS) driver for this device.
For Linux operating systems, configure the USB NIC as DHCP on the host operating system before enabling USB NIC.
If the host operating system is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, then after enabling the USB NIC in iDRAC, you must
manually enable DHCP client on the host operating system. For information to enable DHCP, see the documents for
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 operating systems.
For vSphere, you must install the VIB file before enabling USB NIC.
For the following operating systems, if you install the Avahi and nss-mdns packages, then you can use https://idrac.local
to launch the iDRAC from the host operating system. If these packages are not installed, use https://169.254.0.1 to launch
the iDRAC.
Operating
Firewall
System
Status
RHEL 5.9 32–
Disable
bit
RHEL 6.4 64–
Disable
bit
SLES 11 SP3
Disable
64–bit
On the host system, while installing RHEL 5.9 operating system, the USB NIC pass-through mode is in disabled state. If it
is enabled after the installation is complete, the network interface corresponding to the USB NIC device is not active
automatically. You can do any of the following to make the USB NIC device active:
•
Configure the USB NIC interface using Network Manager tool. Navigate to System → Administrator → Network →
Devices → New → Ethernet Connection and select Dell computer corp.iDRAC Virtual NIC USB Device. Click the
Activate icon to activate the device. For more information, see the RHEL 5.9 documentation.
•
Create corresponding interface's config file as ifcfg-ethX in /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ directory. Add the basic
entries DEVICE, BOOTPROTO, HWADDR, ONBOOT. Add TYPE in the ifcfg-ethX file and restart the network services
using the command service network restart.
•
Reboot the system.
•
Turn off and turn on the system.
On systems with RHEL 5.9 operating system, if the USB NIC was disabled and if you turn off the system or vice-versa,
when the system is turned on and if the USB NIC is enabled, the USB NIC device is not active automatically. To make it
active, check if any ifcfg-ethX.bak file is available in the /etc/sysconfig/network-script directory for the USB NIC
interface. If it is available, rename it to ifcfg-ethX and then use the ifup ethX command.
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Installing VIB File
Installing VIB File
For vSphere operating systems, before enabling the USB NIC, you must install the VIB file.
To install the VIB file:
1.
Using Win-SCP, copy the VIB file to /tmp/ folder of the ESX-i host operating system.
2.
Go to the ESXi prompt and run the following command:
esxcli software vib install -v /tmp/ iDRAC_USB_NIC-1.0.0-799733X03.vib --no-
sig-check
Avahi Package
Install as a separate package
(avahi-0.6.16-10.el5_6.i386.rpm)
Install as a separate package
(avahi-0.6.25-12.el6.x86_64.rpm)
Avahi package is the part of operating system
DVD
nss-mdns Package
Install as a separate package (nss-
mdns-0.10-4.el5.i386.rpm)
Install as a separate package (nss-
mdns-0.10-8.el6.x86_64.rpm)
nss-mdns is installed while installing
Avahi
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