Thank you Andrew for the info. I'll try to connect to the drac as soon as I can reset it. Unfortunately, on the drac 4i bios screen, there isn't a reset option. I have done a lot of google searching, and the information that I found is I have to use racadm to reset it. Since I don't have windows or RedHat installed, I can't use a newer version of racadm. I did find a dos based version, but it didn't seem to reset the drac. I could get the current configuration, but not reset it. So, I took the server apart, and removed the drac board. I found a tiny button. Hopefully pressing it set it back to factory defaults. I looked for the battery on the board, but didn't find one that could be removed. It was interesting to see from the drac configuration that these servers were once used by Target. Phil -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 1:50 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessibility of dell drac Hi, Haven't used DRAC 4, because the business wasn't buying them at that stage. DRAC5 and DRAC6 will work with a screen reader, though the KVM part won't since it transmits video images across the LAN. The rest of the system shouldn't require Java however. To reset the DRAC you need to press ctrl+e at the POST screen and choose the option to reset from the menu. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Philip Hall Sent: 17 November 2012 15:17 To: Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] accessibility of dell drac Hi. I recently bought some Dell poweredge 2850 servers on eBay. I am in the process of installing slackware 14 on some, and windows 2012 on another. I have successfully updated both the bios and PERC firmware. Now, I would like to use the drac 4/I, so I can power up/down the server. the question is: Is drac accessible using the web interface? I understand I need to install some sort of java to use it. I haven't been able to try it out since the servers came with a non-default username/password. I am in the process of trying to set the drac to default values with little success so far. Phil _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins