User Guide

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To perform advanced sorting and filtering, the Discovery Log can be exported to a .csv file by
clicking Export.
An administrator can clear selected log entries on a single page by checking the desired boxes next
to log entries then clicking Clear Selected. The entire Discovery Log can be purged by clicking
Clear All.
SPmanagement
Aservice processor (SP)can be connected to any numbered target port on the back of the
appliance.
Service Processors that lack a dedicated interface are shared with NIC1 in what is called Side-
Band. Side-Band SPs can only be communicated with logically by the appliance via your network.
The SP will need to be assigned an IP that the appliance can communicate with.
Many SPs can be configured to either use the dedicated interface or share (Side-Band) with NIC1.
The appliance can communicate with the SP in either implementation via IP.
When SPs are physically connected to the appliance, the IP of the SP is not accessible to your
network. OEM tools will not be able to communicate with the SP unless the appliance is placed in
Bridge mode. The SP manager prevents communication between its numbered target ports, but
the appliance does not.
The SPManagement screen displays all Service Processors (SPs)connected to the appliance.
From this screen you can add, delete and manage SPsettings. An SP can be manually added to
the appliance if the appliance has IP access to the SP and has a corresponding profile to support
the SP type. The username/password must be provided in the Add SPWizard. Common
credentials can be pre-populated in the Default Users tab. The profile you choose needs to match
the SP as closely as possible.
SPs that use IPMIwill use the KG(Hex format)and Cipher settings to implement a symmetric IPMI
2.0 encryption key to encrypt the UDP-based IPMI traffic. To ensure all of the SPs' capabilities are
available to the appliance, make sure the SPs enable IPMI-over-LANin their configuration.
Because IPMIis sometimes customized, support for non-standard implementations will vary.
NOTE: Appliance support for each SP is dependent upon SP firmware capabilities. See the appliance
firmware release notes for a complete list of SP types and supported SP firmware versions. SPs and
SPversions that are not listed as supported may have some level of support if manually added to the
appliance using the IPMI_2.0 or generic SPprofiles. The appliance firmware and release notes can be
found at http://www.avocent.com/update.