I have been struggling with the iDrac6 on our server. It stopped responding to the system a couple weeks ago. After extensive searching and looking over all the options I attempted to troubleshoot it. However the error "System services unavailable" has persisted. This has prevented me from running the hardware diag PSA from boot. It has prevented me from accessing the iDrac directly to update firmware on it. I am running Linux so am more limited as far as OS testing for the hardware since the PowerEdge R710 is a windows centric server from what I could gather and all the tools are Windows based from the OS. We have even gone so far as to replace the idrac hoping that would solve the issue. No dice. I have updated the system to the latest BIOS. The actual issues that lead us to this conclusion is that the fan array started spinning at a high RPM so it can be heard through the walls. This lead to looking over all the software and eventually hardware and coming to the conclusion that the iDrac is the culprit. Is there any way that we can use the SD card in the iDrac to updateit? or troubleshot it? This thing is a pain in my rear. Thanks in advance.
Server; PowerEdge R710
OS: Ubuntu 12.10 LTE
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