Fujitsu iRMC Quick Connect

Hello,
Do you think you could help us test this. We don't have access to a iRMC server.

Regards

Hi David,

we are a Fujitsu partner and therefor interested in support for iRMC as well. I have access to various generations of servers and iRMCs and would be glad to help you in testing.

Kind regards,
Daniel

I will ask our team to contact you.

Regards

It's been some time, any news on this?

Nothing new on our side. We have a lot of people on vacation.

Regards

Any News? I have a lot of Fujitsu Servers and want to integrate them in Remote Desktop Manager...

Same problem here too. will be glad to hear some good news .

Hi all,

I managed to get iRMC S4 working the following way:


- Add a web session (chrome, embedded)
- URL: https://<IRMC_SERVER_GOES_HERE>/login?APPLY=99&P99=admin
=> In this example I used the admin user (change to P99=<USERNAME> for other users)
- Force HTTPS
- Ignore certificate errors, if you got the self-signed one
- Tab: Username
=> Authentication: Base
=> [X] Auto fill
=> [X] Auto send

Hope this helps sbd. :)

For a more modular approach the following URL also works, just tested it:

https://<IRMC_SERVER_GOES_HERE>/login?APPLY=99&P99=$USERNAME$

Has anyone managed to get this running for iRMC S5?

Hello,

If you do the following from the above post by !BRNDMG in a website entry does it work for you ?

I managed to get iRMC S4 working the following way:


- Add a web session (chrome, embedded)
- URL: https://<IRMC_SERVER_GOES_HERE>/login?APPLY=99&P99=admin
=> In this example I used the admin user (change to P99=<USERNAME> for other users)
- Force HTTPS
- Ignore certificate errors, if you got the self-signed one
- Tab: Username
=> Authentication: Base
=> [X] Auto fill
=> [X] Auto send

Best regards,

Yes, I have tried that, but it does not work.

Hello,

I see, I will speak with our engineers to see what I can find regarding this.

I will update you once I receive news from them.

Best regards,

One upvote for this.
I really like the Dell iDRAC session entry. Is there already something similar for Fujitsu IRMC in the making?

Hello,
From my understanding, it's using VNC. Have you tried connecting with our VNC client? Since we don't have the hardware, it's not easy for us to implement this. Your testing could be helpful.

Regards

Hello

It's an older thread, and the topic is a bit more confusing now because we have (for example) both web-based and native entries for iDRAC and iLO.

Part of the question comes to: what exactly do you want to see in RDM?

The web based sessions in RDM connect to the BMC web interface; there are platform specific ones like iDrac (Web) and iLO (Web) but these are really just web sessions with a bit of extra code to make an automated login work well. If that's what you want - to access the web interface of the Fujitsu BMC - then please try creating a web session in RDM and tell us what difficulties you have (if any) in making that work.

These web interfaces generally expose two things - server management and access to a web-based remote console. The server management side is usually handled by the Redfish API and it could be interesting to build that natively inside RDM, but it's also quite tricky. Redfish is a "standard" but it's extensible, and what we see is that's actually very non-standard between vendors. So it's a lot of work to build something native when the web interfaces usually work sufficiently well. Not impossible, but I'd also judge that the demand hasn't been there.

The other piece that the web interface exposes is usually access to an HTML5 console giving you remote access to the server itself.

For these, we have built native session types for both iDRAC and iLO. The landscape is a bit fractured here; iLO uses a custom protocol but we have access to HP hardware and were able to build an implementation. iDRAC uses a VNC variant that was easier to build. Both of them tunnel the VNC connection over a websocket, and there is also API work upfront to negotiate the details of that websocket tunnel.

So, if you're looking for a native remote console session to a Fujitsu IMRC that would indeed be more complicated, like David said we don't have any equivalent hardware. It's hard to find details on what they're doing but it looks again like a custom protocol exposed over web sockets (maybe I'm wrong, and it's a VNC derivative like iDRAC). Even the handshake will be hard to figure out (it's probably using Redfish, but like I wrote, that's a "non standard" standard).

So - like David said - maybe a good choice if that's what you're looking for is to see if the BMC also has VNC support (iDRAC also supports regular VNC as an option). It could be tricky depending on your setup, because it normally means exposing an extra TCP port and if that's over a WAN it would be a concern (VNC security is weak). Typically a solution like Devolutions Gateway can help you expose that in a secure way.

So the answer is a bit complicated but it comes down to: if you need a native remote console (like for quick connect), that will be hard although not impossible with enough demand. An alternative is VNC, if the BMC supports it, although that can be hard to secure without extra infrastructure like Devolutions Gateway. If you just want the web interface, please try adding it as a web session and let us know what issues you face.

Please, let me know if something isn't clear or you have further questions