User's Manual

Contents 3

Contents

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Supported Systems and Operating Systems. . . . . . . 10

BMC Configuration and Management Tasks . . . . . . 10

Configuring the BMC

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Managing the System Using BMC . . . . . . . . . 11

BMC Action on Event

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Basic BMC Alerting Over a LAN

. . . . . . . . . . 13

IPMI Shell Over a LAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

IPMI Shell Over the Serial Cable

. . . . . . . . . . 16

SOL Proxy Over a LAN

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

BMC Configuration and Management Tools

. . . . . . 20

Using the Remote Access Configuration Utility

in x9xx systems

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Using Deployment Toolkit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Using the BMC Management Utility

. . . . . . . . 20

Using Server Administrator

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21