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Browser Pre-installation: Dell Remote Access Controller 5 Firmware Version 1.30 User's Guide

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Browser Pre-installation

Dell Remote Access Controller 5 Firmware Version 1.30 User's Guide

  Obtain Plug-in Installation Package

  Plug-in Installation


If you are running Linux and your management station has a read-only file system, a browser can be installed on a client system without requiring a connection to a DRAC 5. By using the native plug-in installation package, the browser can be manually installed during the client setup phase.

NOTICE: In a read-only client environment, if the DRAC 5 firmware is updated to a newer version of the plug-in, then the installed VM plug-in will become inoperative. This is because earlier plug-in features are disabled when the firmware contains a newer plug-in version. In this case, the client will be prompted for plug-in installation. Since the file system is read-only, the installation will fail and the plug- in features will not be available.

Obtain Plug-in Installation Package

To obtain the plug-in installation package:

  1. Login to an existing DRAC5

  2. Change the URL in the browser's address bar, from:

https://<RAC_IP>/cgi-bin/webcgi/main

to:

https://<RAC_IP>/plugins/ # Be sure to include the trailing slash.

  1. Notice the two subdirectories vm and vkvm. Navigate to the appropriate subdirectory, right click the rac5XXX.xpi file, and select Save Link Target As....

  2. Choose a location to save the plug-in installation package file.


Plug-in Installation

To install the plug-in installation package:

  1. Copy the installation package to the client's native file system share that is accessible by the client.

  2. Open an instance of the browser on the client system.

  3. Enter the file-path to the plug-in installation package in the browser's address bar. For example:

file:///tmp/rac5vm.xpi

  1. The browser guides the user through plug-in installation.

Once installed, the browser will not prompt for that plug-in installation again, as long as the target DRAC 5 firmware does not contain a newer version of the plug-in.


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