Dell-DRAC

How to enable telnet on drac ?

Issue:

fence_drac -a yourdracip -l username -p yourpassword

failed: telnet open failed: problem connecting to "x.y.x.z", port 23: Connection refused


There are two ways to solve this on through command line and another using webinterfce


Using WWebinterface log into to drac

http://your drac managmenet ip/

Once you logged in From the 'command box' on the Diagnostics tab you can type the following commands,

d3debug propget ENABLE_TELNET' - Prints if telnet is enabled
d3debug propset ENABLE_TELNET=TRUE' - Enables telnet
d3debug racadm racreset' - Reboots the drac.



from the command line using you can ssh into the drac ip

ssh root@dracip
P: feed password

root]# racadm config -g cfgSerial -o cfgSerialSshEnable 1