NOTE While using HTML5 to access virtual console, the language must be consistent across client and target keyboard layout, OS, and browser. For example, all must be in English (US) or any of the supported languages.
To launch the HTML5 virtual console, you must enable the virtual console feature from the iDRAC Virtual Console page and set the
Plug-in Type option to HTML5.
You can launch virtual console as a pop-up window by using one of the following methods:
From iDRAC Home page, click the
Start the Virtual Console link available in the Console Preview session
From iDRAC Virtual Console page, click
Start the Virtual Console link.
From iDRAC login page, type
https//<iDRAC IP>/console. This method is called as Direct Launch.
In the HTML5 virtual console, the following menu options are available:
Power
Boot
Chat
Keyboard
Screen Capture
Refresh
Full Screen
Disconnect Viewer
Console Controls
Virtual Media
The
Pass all keystrokes to server option is not supported on HTML5 virtual console. Use keyboard and keyboard macros for all the functional keys.
Console control — This has the following configuration options:
Keyboard Macros — This is supported in HTML5 virtual console and are listed as the following drop-down options. Click
Apply to apply the selected key combination on the server.
Ctrl+Alt+Del
Ctrl+Alt+F1
Ctrl+Alt+F2
Ctrl+Alt+F3
Ctrl+Alt+F4
Ctrl+Alt+F5
Ctrl+Alt+F6
Ctrl+Alt+F7
Ctrl+Alt+F8
Ctrl+Alt+F9
Ctrl+Alt+F10
Ctrl+Alt+F11
Ctrl+Alt+F12
Alt+Tab
Alt+ESC
Ctrl+ESC
Alt+Space
Alt+Enter
Alt+Hyphen
Alt+F1
Alt+F2
Alt+F3
Alt+F4
Alt+F5
Alt+F6
Alt+F7
Alt+F8
Alt+F9
Alt+F10
Alt+F11
Alt+F12
PrntScrn
Alt+PrntScrn
F1
Pause
Tab
Ctrl+Enter
SysRq
Alt+SysRq
Win-P
Aspect Ratio — The HTML5 virtual console video image automatically adjusts the size to make the image visible. The following configuration options are displayed as a drop-down list:
Maintain
Don’t Maintain
Click
Apply to apply the selected settings on the server.
Touch Mode — The HTML5 virtual console supports the Touch Mode feature. The following configuration options are displayed as a drop-down list:
Direct
Relative
Click
Apply to apply the selected settings on the server.
Virtual Clipboard - Virtual clipboard enables you to cut / copy / paste text buffer from virtual console to iDRAC host server. Host server could be BIOS, UEFI or in OS prompt. This is a one-way action from client computer to iDRAC's host server only. Follow these steps to use the Virtual clipboard:
Place the mouse cursor or keyboard focus on the desired window in the host server desktop.
Select the
Console Controls menu from vConsole.
Copy the OS clipboard buffer using keyboard hotkeys, mouse, or touch pad controls depending on the Client OS. Or, you can type the text manually in the text box.
Click
Send Clipboard to Host.
Then, the text appears on the host server's active window.
NOTE
This feature is only available in Datacenter license.
This feature only supports ASCII text.
Control characters are not supported.
Characters such as
New line and
Tab are allowed.
Text buffer size is limited to 4000 characters.
If more than maximum buffer is pasted, then the edit box in iDRAC GUI will truncate it to maximum buffer size.
Keyboard — The difference between physical and virtual keyboard is that virtual keyboard changes its layout according to the browser language.
Touch Mode — The HTML5 virtual console supports the Touch Mode feature. The following configuration options are displayed as a drop-down list:
Direct
Relative
Click
Apply to apply the selected settings on the server.
Mouse Acceleration — Select the mouse acceleration based on the operating system. The following configuration options are displayed as a drop-down list:
Absolute (Windows, latest versions of Linux, Mac OS-X)
Relative, no acceleration
Relative (RHEL, earlier versions of Linux)
Linux RHEL 6.x and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 or later
Click
Apply to apply the selected settings on the server.
Virtual Media
— Click
Connect Virtual Media option to start the virtual media session. when the virtual media is connected, you can see the options like Map CD/DVD, Map Removable Disk, and Reset USB.
NOTE For security reasons read/write access is disabled while accessing virtual console in HTML5. With Java or ActiveX plug-ins, you can accept security messaging before the plug-in is given the read/write authority.
Supported Browsers
The HTML5 virtual console is supported on the following browsers:
Internet Explorer 11
Chrome 78/79
Firefox 70/71
Safari 13.1
NOTE It is recommended to have Mac OS version 10.10.2 (or onward) installed in the system.