drac-kvm

Overview

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.

dell.com

Description

A simple CLI launcher for Dell DRAC KVM sessions.

This has been tested on the following Dell servers:

• 11th Generation (eg: Dell R710 / iDRAC6)

• 12th Generation (eg: Dell R720 / iDRAC7)

This has also been tested against a Supermicro based system:

• X9DR7-LN4F motherboard with ATEN based iKVIM (3.19 fimrware)

Setup

It requires that you have java installed on your machine (specifically the javaws binary).

Go

If you already have Go configured on your system then you can just run the following to quickly install it:

go get github.com/paulmaddox/drac-kvm

Homebrew

If 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-kvm

Usage

Fed 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 or 7) (supermicro ikvm as 1)

Example using default dell credentials (root/calvin)

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 10.25.1.100

Example using custom credentials

drac-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 10.25.1.100

Configuration file

You 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]
username = foo
password = bar

[web-1]
host = 10.33.0.1
username = root
password = password4root

[web-2]
host = 10.33.0.2
username = root

# Use IP, username and password from drackvmrc for this ip
drac-kvm -h 192.168.0.42
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 192.168.0.42

# Same for host alias web-1
drac-kvm -h web-1
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 10.33.0.1

# Specify -p option in order to do not use defaut password
drac-kvm -h web-2 -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 10.33.0.2

Credits

@jamesdotcuff's helpful blog post:

http://blog.jcuff.net/2013/10/fun-with-idrac.html

Development

Feel free to contribute on GitHub.

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