Users Guide

Conguring CMC

Chassis Management Controller enables you to congure properties, set up users, and alerts to perform remote management tasks.

Before you begin conguring the CMC, you must rst congure the CMC network settings to allow CMC to be managed remotely.

This initial conguration assigns the TCP/IP networking parameters that enable access to the CMC. For more information, see

Setting Up Initial Access to CMC.

You can congure CMC using Web interface or RACADM.

NOTE: When you congure CMC for the rst time, you must be logged in as root user to execute RACADM commands

on a remote system. Another user can be created with privileges to congure CMC.

After setting up the CMC and performing the basic congurations, you can do the following:

• Modify the network settings, if required.

• Congure interfaces to access CMC.

• Congure LCD display.

• Set up chassis groups, if required.

• Congure servers, I/O module, or front panel.

• Congure VLAN settings.

• Obtain the required certicates.

• Add and congure CMC users with privileges.

• Congure and enable e-mail alerts and SNMP traps.

• Set the power cap policy, if required.

NOTE: The following characters cannot be used in the property strings of both the CMC interfaces (GUI and CLI):

• &#

• < and > together

• ; (semicolon)

Viewing and Modifying CMC Network LAN Settings

The LAN settings, such as community string and SMTP server IP address, aect both the CMC and the external settings of the

chassis.

If you have two CMCs (active and standby) on the chassis that are connected to the network, the standby CMC automatically

assumes the network settings of the active CMC in the event of failover.

When IPv6 is enabled at boot time, three router solicitations are sent after every four seconds. If external network switches are

running the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), the external switch ports may be blocked for more than 12 seconds in which the IPv6

router solicitations are sent. In such cases, there may be a period when IPv6 connectivity is limited, until router advertisements are

gratuitously sent by the IPv6 routers.

NOTE: Changing the CMC network settings may disconnect your current network connection.

NOTE: You must have Chassis Conguration Administrator privilege to set up CMC network settings.