Users Guide

Installing and Setting Up the DRAC 5 57

Ensure that the serial MUX is set correctly in the BIOS Setup

program.

• Restart your system.

• During POST, press <F2> to enter the BIOS Setup program.

• Navigate to

Serial Communication

•In the

Serial Connection

menu, ensure that

External Serial

Connector

is set to

Remote Access Device

• Save and exit the BIOS Setup program.

• Restart your system.

The IPMI configuration is complete.

If IPMI serial is in terminal mode, you can configure the following

additional settings using

racadm config cfgIpmiSerial

commands:

• Delete control

•Echo control

• Line edit

• New line sequences

• Input new line sequences

For more information about these properties, see the IPMI 2.0

specification.

Configuring Platform Events

Platform event configuration provides a mechanism for configuring the

remote access device to perform selected actions on certain event messages.

These actions include reboot, power cycle, power off, and triggering an alert

(Platform Events Trap [PET] and/or e-mail).

The filterable Platform Events include the following:

•Fan Probe Failure

• Battery Probe Warning

• Battery Probe Failure

• Discrete Voltage Probe Failure

• Temperature Probe Warning