Owner's Manual

96 Configuring Dell OpenManage IT Assistant to Monitor Your Systems
Configuring IPMI for System Manageability
To be able to use the Intelligent Interface Management Protocol (IPMI)
discovery feature, ensure that you have:
• Dell PowerEdge x 8 xx systems and above with IPMI version 1.5 and later.
This feature will not work for older systems.
•The iDRAC on
xx 0 x modular systems and xx 1 x systems supports IPMI.
• All systems equipped with a baseboard management controller (BMC).
• Configured the BMC/iDRAC of every managed system.
NOTE: For more information on configuring the BMC, see the "Configuring Your
Managed System" section in the Dell OpenManage Baseboard Management
Controller Utilities User’s Guide and for iDRAC see the "Configuring iDRAC" section
in the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller User’s Guide at
support.dell.com/manuals.
NOTE: For more information on configuring SNMP, see "Configuring the SNMP
Service" on page 258.
Table 6-1. Best Practice Recommendations for Setting Up Discovery
Preferred Discovery
Range Type
DHCP Primarily Static IP Addresses
Host name Recommended Recommended if DNS is present
and IP addresses are spread
among many different network
segments
IP address Not recommended Recommended if IP addresses
are spread among many different
network segments
IP range Recommended if located on
one or a few network segments
Recommended if located on one
or a few network segments