User's Manual

14 Introduction
IPMI Shell Over a LAN
Table 1-3 lists the actions you can perform, if you plan to use the BMC
Management Utility’s IPMI Shell or IPMItool to access your system’s BMC
over a LAN.
Table 1-2. BMC LAN Alerting Configuration Guidelines
Features Connection
Medium
BMC Configuration
Tools
Basic Configuration
Tasks
Management
Tools
Platform
Event Alerts
(SNMP
Tra ps )
LAN
•Remote Access
Configuration
Utility in
x9xx
systems
(pre-operating
system
environment)
•Deployment
Toolkit
(pre-operating
system
environment)
•Server
Administrator
1 Configure NIC
Selection to
select Shared,
Failover, or
Dedicated
NOTE: This option is
available only on
Dell PowerEdge
x9xx, xx0x, and xx1x
systems.
2 Configure the
IP address,
Subnet mask, and
Gateway on the
managed system
3 Configure the
VLAN (optional)
4 Enable alerting
5 Configure the
Alert destination
IP address
6 Configure the
Host Name
(optional)
IT Assistant