you can restart the DELL iDRAC over ssh when you cannot connect over the html web management page with racadm racreset soft To do so, connect over SSH to the iDRAC and run the racreset # ssh hostname-idrac -l root root@hostname-idrac's password: /admin1-> racadm racreset soft RAC reset operation initiated successfully. It may take a few minutes for the RAC to come online again. /admin1-> Connection to hostname-idrac closed by remote host. Connection to hostname-idrac closed. Now Read more...