- #MAKE A BACKUP OF THE DELL IDRAC LICENSE PDF#
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When the DRAC interface is installed, it installs with default credentials of username “root” and password of “calvin”. During a penetration test, the Dell DRAC installations (web interface) can lead to an entire compromise of the overall infrastructure and ultimately own everything else. Each blade has its own web interface that gets installed by default on 443 (HTTPS). When a new Dell Chassis hardware infrastructure is installed, a web interface is also present to help with management of the Chassis.
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I've done this sort of update probably 50-100 times in the past and not encountered this issue, though this is just a single data point.By David Kennedy in Penetration Testing, Security Testing & Analysis On one of the systems the idrac hard-crashed and required the entire system to be powered off (downtime) to bring it back up. I installed this update on five systems, going from the second-most-recent version to the most recent one. Though this is something I've probably done a dozen or more times in the past without issue.
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If I were to try and think of something I might have done sub-optimally during the update process it would be that I updated the "dell os driver pack" from 21.03.08 to 21.07.06 and I can't remember if I did that before or after the idrac update. Normally it's probably a good idea to update the idrac first before installing other updates, since components of the idrac update may manage the update process of those other firmwares if they require a reboot. There are some firmware updates that don't even require a reboot, others that always require a reboot (bios), and some updates that explicitly say they should be installed alone (system cpld). Though this configuration is so common it seems unlikely to be the issue.įwiw these are the links/files I used, as others have mentioned, the links are now gone: The other systems only have one card or the other. Hardware-wise there is nothing unique about the system that failed to update, other than it contains a common sas9300-8e card and a 10gb sfp nic. I then tried updating the firmware again, using the same web browser method, and this time it worked. Once the idrac was booted I logged into the web ui and it had reverted to the old 5.00.00.00 firmware. I then powered down the server, unplugged the power cables, held the front power button for 30 seconds to discharge flea power, plugged the server back in, powered it on, and the server/idrac booted normally. I went on-site and tried holding the rear blue led button for 30 seconds to reboot the idrac but that did nothing. The web interface was inaccessible, it would not respond to pings, and the blue idrac led on the back of the server was off. The update process appeared to go fine on the first four systems, however on the last system, an r7415, the idrac applied the update, rebooted itself like they normally do after an update, and never came back up. The update method was to upload firmimgFIT.d9 via the idrac web interface under (maintenance) > (system update) which is the method I typically use on these systems.Īll of these systems are running idrac version "idrac9 enterprise" and all have identical settings. Two weeks ago I went from idrac version 5.00.00.00 to 5.00.10.00 on these systems: Anyone have information about this update being pulled and whether I should look to downgrade to 5.00.00.00?
I had issues with firmware updates not staging randomly, and also some systems had to have the iDRAC reset via SSH with racadm after updating to this latest version (web UI never came back), but it is hit or miss and couldn't be reproduced.
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IDRAC 5.00.10.00 | Driver Details | Compatibility | Last Updated:Septem| Driver Id:7CH5T | Size:446 B | Format:Text, PDF File, exe, bin, sign | Driver Type:iDRAC with Lifecycle controller If you search their site for it, there is one result: After digging it looks like it was ripped down without a hint of a reason why, which is concerning to say the least.
Last week I installed iDRAC version 5.00.10.00 on a whole load of 740 and 640 servers we run, tonight I noticed that version 5.00.00.00 is the latest showing up for our servers on the support page.