Users Guide

26 Microsoft SCE/SCVMM Integrated Solution
• The IPMI Power control and LED Identification tasks shipped with the
Dell Management Pack require BMU 2.0 or later to be installed on the
Operations Manager Management Server. It also requires default
BMC credentials and default path (
C:\Program Files\Dell\SysMgt\bmc ),
which cannot be modified.
If your systems have different BMC credentials, install BMU 2.0 on the
Operator Console system and create new console tasks in the authoring
pane targeted on
BMC for Dell Server .
Select
Create new task → Console Tasks - CommandLine and set the
following command line parameters:
– Application: Type the path of application "ipmish.exe" (For example,
C:\Program Files\Dell\SysMgt\bmc\ipmish.exe )
– Parameters: for example:
-ip $Target/Property[Type=
"Dell.Connections00130025!Dell.Connections.
ServerBMC"]/BMCIPAddress$ -u %BMCUserName% -p
%BMCPassword% -k %BMCKGKey% %IPMITaskString%
The above BMCIPAddress string can be populated by selecting the drop
down button indicating
BMC IP Address .
Update the BMC credentials
- %BMCUserName%, %BMCPassword%, %BMCKGKey%
%IPMITaskString%
- "power status" for CheckPowerStatus Task
- "power on" for PowerOn Task
- "power off" for PowerOffGrace Task
- "power off -force" for PowerOffForce Task
- "power cycle" for PowerCycle Task
- "power reset" for PowerReset Task
- "identify on" for LEDOn Task
- "identify off" for LEDOff Task
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