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Introduction 13
BMC Action on Event
If you plan to use your system’s BMC to perform actions when events occur,
you must follow the BMC Action on Event configuration guidelines listed in
Ta bl e 1 - 1.
Basic BMC Alerting Over a LAN
If you plan to use your system’s BMC to send alerts (Platform Event Traps),
you must follow the BMC configuration guidelines listed in Table 1-2.
NOTE: The LAN-sharing depends on the NIC selection configuration option.
The available options are Shared and Failover. If you are using iDRAC6 Enterprise, the
additional option available is Dedicated. See the NIC Selection option in the table in
"Remote Access Configuration Utility Options" on page 32 for more information on
Shared, Failover, and Dedicated.
Table 1-1. BMC Action on Event Configuration Guidelines
Features Connection
Medium
BMC Configuration
Tools
Basic
Configuration
Tasks
Management
Tools
•System
Reset
•System
Power Off
•System
Power
Cycle
LAN • Deployment Toolkit
(pre-operating system
environment)
• Server Administrator
•Enable
platform
events
•Enable alert
actions
NA