Grant a user created with IPMI privileges to login to the Dell DRAC web management interface.

grant-drac-web-privileges.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Description:
#
# Quick hack to grant a user the privileges necessary to login to the Dell DRAC web management interface.
#
# This is a workaround for a bug where a user created in IPMI can't login to the Dell DRAC web management portal.
# The user would be denied with error: Login failed. User does not have 'Login to Dell BMC' privilege.
#
# We assume that the default user and password are still enabled (root:root).
#
# Tested with firmware version 2.53
#
# Usage: ./grant-drac-web-privileges.rb <csv_file>
#
# Requirements:
#
# - PhantomJS (brew install phantomjs OR npm install -g phantomjs)
# - Watir with webdriver (gem install watir-webdriver)
#
# Example CSV file format:
#
#   34:17:EB:B4:0D:45,10.4.8.133
#   34:17:EB:B4:0D:27,10.4.8.134
#   34:17:EB:B4:0D:3F,10.4.8.135
#

require 'watir-webdriver'
require 'csv'

class DellAdmin
  attr_accessor :ips, :user

  def initialize
    @browser = Watir::Browser.new :phantomjs, :args => ['--ignore-ssl-errors=yes']
  end

  def run
    @ips.map do |ip|
      puts "Making Administrator: #{ip}"
      make_admin(ip)
    end
  end

  def close
    @browser.close
  end

  def make_admin(ip)
    @browser.goto("https://#{ip}")

    @browser.text_field(:name, "user").when_present.set("root")
    @browser.text_field(:name, "password").set("root")
    @browser.a(:id, "btnOK").click

    users_nav = @browser.frame(:name, "bmcTree").span(:text, "Users")
    users_nav.wait_until_present
    users_nav.click

    data_frame = @browser.frame(:name, "dataPage")

    users_table = data_frame.table(:id, 'userList')
    users_table.wait_until_present
    uid = users_table.to_a.select {|row| row[2] == "collins" }[0][0]
    users_table.a(:text, uid).click

    priv_dropdown = data_frame.select(:id, "userPriv")
    priv_dropdown.wait_until_present
    priv_dropdown.select("Administrator")

    apply = @browser.frame(:name, "headerFrame").td(:id, "btn2").span(:text, "Apply Changes").parent
    apply.click

    sleep 1  # probably don't need to do this
  end
end

file = ARGV[0]
unless File.exist?(file)
  $stderr.puts "ERROR: CSV file does not exist!"
  exit 1
end
csv = CSV.read(file)

ip_list = []
CSV.foreach(file) {|row| ip_list << row[1] }

d = DellAdmin.new
d.user = "collins"
d.ips = ip_list
d.run
d.close