Dell Remote Access Controller is the best remote configuration of Dell server. It has many features like cold reboot, shutdown and remote console panel. You can see almost everything including hardware and software problem, Hardware sensors, hardware and software logs and many more.
DRAC is also described on Wikipedia as:
“An interface card from Dell Inc, provides out-of-band management facilities. The controller has its own processor, memory, battery, network connection, and access to the system bus. Key features include power management, virtual media access and remote console capabilities, all available through a supported web browser. This gives system administrators the ability to configure a machine as if they were sitting at the local console (terminal).”
How to configure DRAC on dell servers is really very easy, you just have to connect a LAN cable to DRAC interface and start the server, at system startup the server will ask to setup the DRAC IP address.
