Users Guide

Known Issues and Frequently Asked Questions 55
Known Issues and Frequently Asked
Questions
This section discusses known issues with using the BMC Management Utility, along with
frequently asked questions.
Known Issues
General Issues
• You must assign a valid BMC user name and password before you can connect to your
system's BMC using the BMC Management Utility. Even though your system's BMC
firmware does not allow null user names or null passwords to be set, the BMC Management
Utility does not limit this functionality. If you do not explicitly provide a valid BMC user
name and password when using the BMC Management Utility to log in to your system's
BMC, the BMC firmware will use a null user name and null password as defaults, resulting in
a "Login Not Authorized" error.
SOL Proxy Issues
• SOL Proxy on IP port 623 allows connections from a Web browser. However, if you connect
from a Web browser, SOL Proxy displays only jumbled and unusable data. You must close the
Web session and connect through a telnet connection to run the application.
• Only one telnet session at a time can be connected to the SOL Proxy service.
• Microsoft
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SAC does not implement hardware control flow. Therefore, when console
redirection is enabled with EMS SAC, you will see corrupted data. Because SAC does not
implement hardware flow control, you are not able to effectively use SOL Proxy to activate
console redirection to EMS SAC.
IPMI Shell Issues
• After IPMI Shell is installed, if you open a command prompt and type "ipmish" without being
in the "
C:\Program Files\Dell\SysMgt\bmc " directory you will get an error saying that the
command could not be found. This is because by default, the IPMISH directory is not added
to the system path. You must either manually add the system path to the command line, or go
to the specified directory before running the IPMISH application.