Dell PowerEdge R830 Integrated Remote Access Controller 8 Version 2.70.70.70 U - Page 89
Dell computer corp.iDRAC Virtual NIC USB Device, Table 12. Operating System details for USB NIC
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• RHEL 6.7 • vSphere v5.0 U2 ESXi • vSphere v5.1 U3 • vSphere v5.1 U1 ESXi • vSphere v5.5 ESXi • vSphere v5.5 U3 • vSphere 6.0 • vSphere 6.0 U1 • CentOS 6.5 • CentOS 7.0 • Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS • Ubuntu 12.04.04 LTS • Debian 7.6 (Wheezy) • Debian 8.0 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 operating system on the host is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, CentOS 6.5, CentOS 7.0, Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, or Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS 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, CentOS, and Ubuntu 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. Table 12. Operating System details for USB NIC Operating System Firewall Status RHEL 5.9 32-bit Disable RHEL 6.4 64-bit Disable SLES 11 SP3 64-bit Disable Avahi Package nss-mdns 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 Install as a separate package (nssmdns-0.10-4.el5.i386.rpm) Install as a separate package (nssmdns-0.10-8.el6.x86_64.rpm) nss-mdns is installed while installing Avahi 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 ifcfgethX.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. Related tasks Installing VIB file Configuring iDRAC 89
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