Users Guide

Installing and Setting Up CMC

This section provides information about how to install your CMC hardware, establish access to CMC,

configure your management environment to use CMC, and guides you through the tasks for configuring

a CMC:

• Set up initial access to CMC.

• Access CMC through a network.

• Add and configure CMC users.

• Update CMC firmware.

Installing CMC Hardware

The CMC is pre-installed on your chassis and hence no installation is required.

Checklist To Set up Chassis

The following tasks enable you to accurately setup the chassis:

1. The CMC and the management station, where you use your browser, must be on the same network,

which is called the management network. Connect an Ethernet network cable from the port labelled

GB1 to the management network.

Management Network: CMC and the iDRAC (on each server) and the network management ports

for the switch I/O module are connected to a common internal network in the PowerEdge FX2/FX2s

chassis. This allows the management network to be isolated from the server data network.

Application Network: Access to the managed servers is accomplished through network connections

to the I/O module (IOM). This allows the application network to be isolated from the management

network. It is important to separate this traffic for uninterrupted access to chassis management.

NOTE: It is recommended to isolate chassis management from the data network. Due to the

potential of traffic on the data network, the management interfaces on the internal

management network can be saturated by traffic intended for servers. This results in CMC and

iDRAC communication delays. These delays may cause unpredictable chassis behavior, such as

CMC displaying iDRAC as offline even when it is up and running, which in turn causes other

unwanted behavior. If physically isolating the management network is impractical, the other

option is to separate CMC and iDRAC traffic to a separate VLAN. CMC and individual iDRAC

network interfaces can be configured to use a VLAN.

2. The STK/Gb2 port can also be used for CMC NIC failover. Ensure that the CMC setting is changed

from default Stacking to Redundant to implement NIC failover. For more information, see

Configuring Management Port 2