User's Manual

Contents 3

Contents

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

What’s New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

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

BMC Configuration and Management Tasks

. . . . . . 11

Configuring the BMC

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

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