• Windows Server 2012 SP1
• SLES 10 SP4 (64-bit)
• SLES 11 SP2 (64-bit)
• RHEL 5.9 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• RHEL 6.4
• vSphere v5.0 U2 ESXi
• vSphere v5.1 U1 ESXi
• vSphere v5.5 ESXi
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
System Firewall
Status Avahi Package nss-mdns Package
RHEL 5.9
32–bit
Disable Install as a separate package
(avahi-0.6.16-10.el5_6.i386.rpm)
Install as a separate package (nss-
mdns-0.10-4.el5.i386.rpm)
RHEL 6.4
64–bit
Disable Install as a separate package
(avahi-0.6.25-12.el6.x86_64.rpm)
Install as a separate package (nss-
mdns-0.10-8.el6.x86_64.rpm)
SLES 11 SP3
64–bit
Disable Avahi package is the part of operating
system DVD
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.
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