User's Manual
46 Configuring Your Managed System
1
Insert the bootable BMC configuration diskette or CD into the
appropriate drive of the system to be deployed and reboot the system.
2
To create a new user, at the command prompt, type:
syscfg username --userid=X --name=name
where
X
is a number between 2–10 and
name
is an ASCII string of 16 or
fewer characters.
Press <Enter> to execute the command line options.
3
To enable the new user ID, at the command prompt, type:
syscfg useraction --userid=X --action=enable
Press <Enter> to execute the command line options.
4
To set the password for a BMC user, at the command prompt, type:
syscfg passwordaction --action=setpassword --userid=X -
-password=password
where
password
is an ASCII string of 16 or fewer characters for both
PowerEdge
x8xx
and
x9xx
systems.
CAUTION: A password must be set for each BMC user. The BMC firmware does
not allow access to users with null user names or passwords.
Press <Enter> to execute the command-line options.
5
To configure BMC user privilege, at the command prompt, type:
syscfg lanuseraccess --usrprivlmt=bmcuserprivilege
where bmcuserprivilege=user, operator,
administrator, noaccess
Press <Enter> to execute the command-line options.
Configuring the BMC IP Address
1
Insert the Deployment Toolkit CD into the appropriate drive of the
system to be deployed and reboot the system.
2
To configure the BMC IP address source for the LAN channel to DHCP,
at the command prompt, type:
syscfg lcp --ipaddrsrc=dhcp
Press <Enter> to execute the command line options.