Many times we had trouble accessing the discontinued DRAC 5 from older generation Dell PowerEdge servers. Needed Internet Explorer 7 with specific Java installed and strange ActiveX setup.
What about accessing that console from Linux?
Here comes icedtea-web to help.
Install icedtea
yum -y install icedtea-web
Adjust Java security
Altering java.security is needed because DRAC 5 uses older security vulnerable alagorithms.
vi /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.121-2.6.8.0.el7_3.x86_64/jre/lib/security/java.security
And change the following 2 lines:
jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=MD5, SSLv3, DSA, RSA keySize < 2048
jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms=MD2, DSA, RSA keySize < 2048
into
jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=
jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms=
Edit javaws.itweb
vi /usr/bin/javaws.itweb
And make sure you have these 2 lines matching the “right” Java (the one with security altered)
JAVA=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.121-2.6.8.0.el7_3.x86_64/jre/bin/java
CP=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.121-2.6.8.0.el7_3.x86_64/jre/lib/rt.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.121-2.6.8.0.el7_3.x86_64/jre/lib/jfxrt.jar
DRAC 5 certificate import
Via browser download Dell Drac 5 default certificate and import into javaws
itweb-settings.itweb
Click Certificates -> User -> Import -> ~/Downloads/drac5.cert
Click Cache -> View Files -> Purge -> Done -> Apply -> OK
Open the console and start working
