How to find out iDRAC firmware version

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Sathish

How to find out iDRAC firmware version   29 May 2018, 15:42

Team,
Thanks for the wonderful tool.
I have a question: is it possible to find the remote servers' (nearly 100+) physical server iDRAC firmware version using netscan.exe?

Thanks in advance
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Re: How to find out iDRAC firmware version   29 May 2018, 15:48

We don't have any iDRAC devices on hand to check, but if they expose the firmware version to the web-management page, then yes - it's possible.

We found a couple of publicly accessible iDRAC devices: https://162.213.122.82, https://109.74.157.74. If yours look like one of these, try the following:
  1. Download the latest build of Network Scanner that supports HTTPS page extraction.
  2. Import the attached configuration file into that latest build.
  3. Go to Options - Remote XML and you will see the entry that extracts firmware version from the About page's HTML code.

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Re: How to find out iDRAC firmware version   30 May 2018, 12:39

Wasn't the item already setup under the Remote XML options for iLO and iDRAC. If memory serves me?

EDIT: Opps I see XML now. Thought this was a pure HTML query.
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Re: How to find out iDRAC firmware version   30 May 2018, 15:34

There wasn't an entry and until the latest build only HTTP was supported, not HTTPS.

With the support of HTTPS if the iDRAC web-interface exposes its version, it can be retrieved and extracted with a regex as per above example.

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