Migrate Zabbix/Grafana to new server

I’m in the process of migrating hypervisors and the time has come to move my Zabbix instance that monitors my network, and Grafana that I use for dashboard displays.

Instead of a backup and restore of the VM, it seems the right time to migrate Zabbix and Grafana from an aging RHEL 8 instance to a new VM running a fresh copy of Debian 13. At the same time upgrading the applications to their latest versions…

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iDRAC 6: Remote Console

A few months ago a freshly retired Dell Poweredge T310 came back to the office, I plugged it into the network and left it off in the unlikely event it data was needed off it. It’s now I’m remote to the office, and need it’s data.

No problem I thought, use the iDrac to log into the ESXi console and set a new IP as it is statically assigned to a different subnet to the office…

Trouble is, the iDrac is so out of date I can’t get to its web interface on any browser available to my Windows 10 machine.

This is how to get access to an outdated iDrac 6 web interface and remote console…

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