About the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC)

Overview of iDRAC's role in administering the SMW.

The iDRAC is a systems management hardware and software solution that provides remote management capabilities, crashed system recovery, and power control functions for the System Management Workstation (SMW). The iDRAC alerts administrators to server issues, helps them perform remote server management, and reduces the need for physical access to the server. The iDRAC also facilitates inventory management and monitoring, deployment and troubleshooting. To help diagnose the probable cause of a system crash, the iDRAC can log event data and capture an image of the screen when it detects that the system has crashed.