Server Management Ver. 2.01 User Manual

Frequently Asked Questions
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5. Why can I only add 4 IPMI accounts?
The IPMI sub-system only supports four IPMI accounts according to the Intel IPMI SPEC.
What you can do is just to modify the existing accounts when there are already four IPMI
accounts.
6. What's the difference between the SMS account and IPMI account?
The SMS account is the OS account, and it is used to log on SMS Standalone Management;
while the IPMI account is used to log on SMS IPMI Remote Console.
7. How can I start a remote control session?
First you need to install the Remote Control plug-in correctly: Enter SMS > Toolkit >
Console Redirect. Click the setup link at the bottom of the page to download and install the
setup kit.
Then, you can click the Console Redirect icon in the SMS > Toolkit > Console Redirect page
to start a remote control session.
8. Can 'Launch Executable' in Schedule Task start a GUI / Command Line program?
Yes. SMS supports GUI / Command Line programs in Windows. But in Linux, SMS runs as
background service in invisible consoles, so the GUI or interactive programs can not be
executed through SMS Standalone Management.
9. Why can't the batch file (*.bat/*.cmd) be executed by Schedule Task / Event Trigger?
The batch files are not really the executable files. They need to be parsed and executed by the
Shell. SMS does not support these files presently.
10. How can I make SMS send trap to another server?
First you need to find the SNMP service (Windows) or /etc/snmp (Linux) and add the trap
destination.
Then make sure the checkbox of Send Trap is checked in SMS > Configuration.
11. Does SMS support SNMP management? How?
Yes, it does. In Windows
(32-bit for example) you can load the MIB definition file - SMS-MIB
in the sub-directory "%systemroot%\system
32\snmpconfig" of your setup directory. But in Linux,
the Net-SNMP with version 5.0.7 or above has got rid of the node for sub-SNMP, so SMS
only supports Net-SNMP with version 5.0.6. or lower, and in this case, the MIB file is
"sms-mib" in /usr/local/Hewlett-Packard/sms/snmp.