sounds plausible for drac5 too..  from whence do you download that jnlp
file?  perhaps it "offers" for you to download it?  the way it (doesn't)
work for me is when i click the "Console" tab it shows a spinning hourglass
image followed by "Loading the Console Redirection Plug-in...", but nothing
further happens.


On 13 June 2013 21:16, Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote:

> Does the drac5 run a full webserver and you're just trying to get to the
> console? I've got a drac7 and to launch the console app I get a jnlp file,
> which is for java webstart. I've been unable to get it to work directly
> from my browser, so what I do is download the jnlp file and then execute
> javaws <filename> and it works as long as I don't wait longer than 30
> seconds to execute it because the login credentials timeout.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 8:40 PM, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote:
>
>> does anybody connect to dell drac5 from ubuntu firefox?  what's the trick?
>>
>>
>> http://projects.nuschkys.net/2011/08/11/dell-dracremote-console-discoveries/
>>
>> the above page suggests that ubuntu's icetea java plugin needs to be
>> substituted by the sun java plugin.  but i can't find any sun java plugin
>> in the raring repos.  perhaps i should be looking somewhere else?  or
>> falling back to an earlier ubuntu?  where/which?
>>
>
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