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Cisco Wide Area Application Services Configuration Guide
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Chapter 1 Configuring Other System Settings
Using IPMI over LAN
is set up and enabled on WAAS, authorized users can access BMC remotely even when WAAS becomes
unresponsive or the device is powered down but connected to a power source. You can use an IPMI v2
compliant management utility, such as ipmitool or OSA SMbridge, to connect to the BMC remotely to
perform IPMI operations.
The IPMI over LAN feature provides the following remote platform management services:
• Supports the power on, power off, and power cycle of the WAAS appliance.
• Monitors the health of the WAAS hardware components by examining Field Replaceable Unit
(FRU) information and reading sensor values.
• Retrieves logs of important system events to conduct remote management and recovery.
• Provides serial console access to the WAAS appliance over the IPMI session.
• Support for IPMI Serial over LAN (SoL)—IPMI SoL enables a remote user to access a WAAS
appliance through a serial console through an IPMI session.
IPMI over LAN and IPMI SoL features can be configured using CLI commands and include the
following:
• Configuring IPMI LAN interface
• Configuring IPMI LAN users
• Configuring security settings for remote IPMI access
• Enabling/disabling IPMI over LAN
• Enabling/disabling IPMI SoL
• Restoring the default settings for the BMC LAN channel
• Displaying the current IPMI over LAN and IPMI SoL configurations
For more information on configuring IPMI over LAN, see the “Configuring BMC for Remote Platform
Management” section on page 1-26.
BMC Firmware Update
IPMI over LAN requires that a specific BMC firmware version be installed on the device. The minimum
supported BMC firmware versions are:
• WAVE-294/594/694—48a
• WAVE-7541/7571/8541—26a
WAAS appliances shipped from the factory with WAAS version 4.4.5 or later do have the correct
firmware installed. If you are updating a device that was shipped with an earlier version of WAAS
software, you must update the BMC firmware, unless it was updated previously.
To determine if you are running the correct firmware version, use the show bmc info command. The
following example displays the latest BMC firmware version installed on the device (48a here):
wave# show bmc info
Device ID : 32
Device Revision : 1
Firmware Revision : 0.48 <<<<< version 48
IPMI Version : 2.0
Manufacturer ID : 5771
Manufacturer Name : Unknown (0x168B)
Product ID : 160 (0x00a0)
Product Name : Unknown (0xA0)
Device Available : yes
Provides Device SDRs : no
Additional Device Support :