I'm trying to get Server Config Profiles working on a Dell R750 via the front Micro-USB port, but I'm having trouble getting the iDRAC to actually see the config files on the USB.
According to the documentation, a directory named System_Configuration_XML must exist in the USB root, and then two files (control.xml and config.xml, or maybe configuration.xml) need to be placed within that directory: control.xml specifies the config apply settings (reboot type, timeout, etc), while config.xml specifies the server settings (iDRAC/BIOS/RAID settings).
There is no mention in any documentation I could find on the specific filesystem to use.
I have tried NTFS, FAT32, exFAT and EXT2 filesystems, with the following file structure on each, with no luck. The log entry I've seen is similar to "the config file cannot be found, or there are multiple compressed files". I assume this means that the iDRAC cannot find the files, because I am not compressing anything.
|USB_ROOT
|-config.xml
|-configuration.xml
|-control.xml
|-|System_Configuration_XML
|-|- config.xml
|-|- configuration.xml
|-|- control.xml
Has anyone actually managed to get the USB-based SCP configuration working for the 14th-gen servers?
I found out the issue. Turns out the iDRAC doesn't like 28GB partitions. I created a 1GB partition formatted as FAT32 and it just worked.