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40 PowerEdge T420 Technical Guide
Feature (function)
Basic
management
iDRAC7
Express
iDRAC7
Enterprise
Local/SSH CLI
∞
∞
Serial redirection
∞
∞
Remote config
∞
∞
Email alerts
∞
∞
SNMP alerts
∞
∞
Comprehensive monitoring
∞
∞
Crash screen capture
3
∞
∞
Dedicated NIC 1Gbps (100MB in iDRAC6)
∞
4
Part replacement
∞
Backup and restore configurations
∞
Virtual console (4 user)
∞
Virtual console chat
∞
Support for customer supplied SD cards
for vFlash media
∞
Virtual flash partitions
∞
Virtual media
∞
Virtual folders
∞
Remote file share
∞
Crash video playback
∞
Boot record/playback
∞
Power capping
∞
Enterprise group power management
∞
Directory services (AD, LDAP)
∞
PK authentication
∞
Two-factor authentication
4
∞
1
Rack and tower systems only
2
Feature available with IPMI, not web GUI
3
Requires OMSA agent on target server
4
Uses Microsoft ActiveX
®
on Internet Explorer
®
only
Agent-based management
Most systems management solutions require pieces of software, called agents, to be installed on
each node in order to be managed within the IT environment. Additionally, the same agent is often
used as a local interface into the hardware health and may be accessed remotely as a management