Users Guide

Working With the Baseboard Management Controller 95
6 Specify the following general information:
• Select
Enable User to enable the user.
• Enter the name for the user in the
User Name field.
• Select the
Change Password check box.
• Enter a new password in the
New Password field.
• Re-enter the new password in the
Confirm New Password field.
7 Specify the following user privileges:
• Select the maximum LAN user privilege level limit.
• Select the maximum serial port user privilege granted.
• On Dell PowerEdge
x9xx systems, select Enable Serial Over LAN to enable Serial Over LAN.
8 Click Apply Changes to save changes.
9 Click Back to Remote Access User Window to go back to the Remote Access Users window.
NOTE: Six additional user entries are configurable when RAC is installed. This results in a total of 16 users.
The same username and password rules apply to BMC and RAC users. When DRAC 5 is installed, all the
16 users entries are allocated to RAC.
Setting BMC Platform Event Filter Alerts
You can use the Server Administrator Instrumentation Service to configure the most relevant
BMC features, such as Platform Event Filter (PEF) parameters and alert destinations.
1
Click the System object.
2 Click the Alert Management tab.
3 Click Platform Events .
The
Platform Events window allows you to take individual action on specific platform events. You can
select those events for which you want to take shutdown actions and generate alerts for selected
actions. You can also send alerts to specific IP address destinations of your choice.
NOTE: You must be logged in with Administrator privileges to configure the BMC Platform Event Filter Alerts.
You can configure the following platform events:
• Fan Probe Failure
• Voltage Probe Failure
• Discrete Voltage Probe Failure
• Temperature Probe Warning
• Temperature Probe Failure
• Chassis Intrusion Detected
• Redundancy Degraded