Depl0y hardware: iDRAC and iLO over Redfish
For technicians who look after the servers under Proxmox with Depl0y: how the BMC poller works (interval, concurrency, retries, stale readings), which entries the iDRAC / iLO page lists, model detection and overrides, how health is worked out from current component state, what clearing the event log does and doesn't do, firmware checks, the power menu for hung and powered-off servers, and the Time Sync audit for nodes, PBS servers and BMCs.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 50 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 2 Oct 2026
- Depl0y · open source
Skills you'll practise
- Explain how and how often Depl0y polls BMCs and what a stale reading means
- Find the real cause of a Warning from health reasons and decide whether clearing the event log is appropriate
- Fix BMC credential problems without locking the account out
- Choose the right power action for a hung server and a powered-off server
- Use the Time Sync audit and know which targets it can remediate
Course outline
- 1.Depl0y hardware: iDRAC and iLO over RedfishVideo · 2 min
- 2.How the BMC poller worksLesson · 16 min
- 3.Health, event logs and firmwareLesson · 16 min
- 4.Power and timeLesson · 16 min
- 5.Depl0y hardware: iDRAC and iLO over Redfish: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 15 questions
- 6.Depl0y: hardware data goes stale after a BMC password changeScenario
- 7.Final exam9 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- Depl0y README (Proxmox web interface comparison, requirements, known limitations, upgrades and backups)
- Depl0y docs: Feature reference
- Depl0y docs: Quick start (endpoints, permissions, BMCs, optional setup, troubleshooting)
- Depl0y docs: Architecture and internals (background jobs, caching, state on disk, configuration, services)
- Depl0y CHANGELOG (release history; version-specific behaviour taught in these courses)
- Depl0y docs: Screenshot gallery (27 views with captions)
- MSP Zero: Depl0y tool page
- DMTF Redfish standard (background on the BMC API Depl0y polls)
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