Dell's DRAC allows you to control your server through an ssh console or a web browser.
At least in practice.
In reality it goes more like this:
1. Start with ssh, log in, look how cool it is, get confused...
2. Try to find something on the internet...
3. It's not quite there, but try again, go to step 2.
4. Figure what the hell, it can't be so hard, but alas! you session timed out, to log in go to step 1.
5. Consider thy art a hacker this lowly dell must kneel before thee, but alas! session timed out again, process to step 1.
6. After a night's rest you find a few PDF's on Dell site (by great wizardry of Google, of course), and decide to check the browser access instead.
7. Log in.
8. Navigate to Media section and get thoroughly confused unable to make a distinction between Virtual Media and Virtual Flash. Besides it keeps bugging you to install something.
9. Find another PDF on Dell's site (-"-) and get a clue: it's almost like vmware, except the server is real. somewhere in the dungeon of ISP.
10. Install the extension for Virtual Media and alas! Firefox needs a restart.
11. Restart and find out that your session is dead - go to step 7.
12. Select your ISO image, and wait... what's wrong with that button, why is it still disabled?
13. Use your grand hacker mad skillz and figure out that clicking around randomly might help.
14. Try 13 again.
15. And again.
16. And again.
17. Find out that the whole Virtual Media blob is disabled in Configuration.
18. Re-enable, re-select file, a nice pop-up tells you now to tweak javasctipt (?) settings, nice! But what now?
19. Proceed to Console, it wants you to install another extension...
20. Install extension.
21. Restart Firefox.
22. Session is dead, go back to 7 again.
23. Go to Console, all looks good, but where is the console?
24. Click around randomly.
25. Bah! Firefox died (2nd time already actually, but no matter)
26. Start Firefox again, session is dead, back to step 7.
27. Then by the virtue of true madness you see (if you are lucky that is) in the console that started Firefox errors like "blahblahblah not found"
28. Run some find .mozilla -name blah, and discover that....
29. The script that starts a standalone viewer program assumes that your profile is called "default."
30. Restart Firefox in default profile, session dead, go to step 7.
31. Install extension in default profile, restart Firefox, session dead go to step 7.
32. A nice popup tells you how to tweak here-be-dragons settings in Firefox, nice!
33. A console viewer shows up, telling you that operating system is not installed.
34. Go to power, reset, really sure to reset, apply...
35. Watch the console screen blink green for a while... and a while longer... and still a while... and whoa BIOS boots!
36. See press F2 for BIOS config, nice screen, perhaps go to boot options?
37. Oh horror! Arrow keys don't work!
38. Muck around long.
39. Google around even longer.
40. No luck, try keypad arrow keys - salvation!
41. Meanwhile browser session timed out, but now there's an overlay screen prompting you for a password, nice!
42. Decide to check your RAID settings, arrow keys don't work and here, they don't support keyboard arrow keys anyway!
43. Think
44. Consider perhaps RAID settings are fine anyway...
45. Press Escape to quit, get a pop-up [ok] [cancel] with cancel selected. To move to [ok] you need arrow keys...
To Be Continued...
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