Users Guide

10 Introduction
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BMC Action on Alert
If you plan to use your system’s BMC to send BMC alerts, you must follow the BMC Action on
Alert configuration guidelines listed in Table 1-1.
Basic BMC Alerting Over a Shared LAN
If you plan to use your system’s BMC to only monitor BMC Alerts using IT Assistant, you will need
to follow the BMC configuration guidelines listed in Table 1-2.
Table 1-1. BMC Action on Alert Configuration Guidelines
Features Connection
Medium
BMC Configuration Tools Basic Configuration Tasks BMC Management
Tools
• System Reset
• System Power
Off
• System Power
Cycle
Accessed over a
shared LAN
• DTK (pre-operating system
environment)
• Server Administrator
• Enable platform events
• Enable alert actions
NA
Table 1-2. BMC LAN Alerting Configuration Guidelines
Features Connection
Medium
BMC Configuration Tools Basic Configuration Tasks BMC Management
Tools
SNMP Traps Accessed over a
shared LAN
• BMC Setup Module (pre-
operating system
environment)
• DTK (pre-operating system
environment)
• Server Administrator
• Enable alerting on the
managed system
• Configure the IP address,
Subnet mask, and Gateway
on the managed system
• Configure the Alert
destination IP address
• Enable VLAN (optional)
IT Assistant