Product guide
84 Configuration Software and Utilities
85MAXDATA PLATINUM 90004R Server System
Destination MAC Address
If the destination IP address is outside the subnet that the server is on, this edit box is used to enter
the MAC address of the destination machine to which the alert should be sent. The MAC address
should be entered as a series of six pairs of hex digits separated by dashes, e.g. 00-01-62-d0-3e-
66. Alphabetic hex digits (a-f) can be entered in uppercase or lowercase. This edit box is grayed out
by default and is only activated if the checkbox to allow gateway MAC addresses to be resolved
automatically is not checked.
Automatically Resolve Destination MAC Address
This checkbox allows you to specify whether the BMC should attempt to resolve the MAC address
of the destination machine automatically. If unchecked, the assumption is that you are entering the
MAC address in the edit box provided. If the checkbox is checked and the BMC cannot resolve the
MAC address, you are informed of this and are asked to provide the MAC address in the edit box
provided in this view. The view is redisplayed with this checkbox unchecked. Any data previously
entered remains in the view.
This checkbox is checked by default. If it is unchecked, the destination MAC address edit box becomes
active (it is grayed out when this checkbox is checked).
Number of Retries
This edit box allows a user to enter the number of times to retry sending an alert to a given destination.
If set to 0, no retries will be done; the alert is only sent once. If the option is enabled, the alert will
only be retried if a timeout occurs while waiting for the acknowledge. If alert acknowledge is enabled,
then retries are only done if a timeout occurs waiting for the acknowledge. If alert acknowledge is
disabled, the number of retries is the number of times an unacknowledged alert is sent out.
Retry Interval
This edit box is used to set the retry interval, in seconds, when sending an alert or to set the
acknowledge timeout when alert acknowledge is enabled. The recommended default is 3 seconds.
This value is ignored if alert acknowledge is disabled. This setting can have a value from 1 to 255
inclusive.
Enable Alert Acknowledge
This checkbox should be checked if the destination IP address should send an alert acknowledge
when an alert is received. If this checkbox is checked, then an alert is only assumed to have been
successfully sent if an acknowledge is received.
Use Default Gateway
This checkbox should be checked if the IP address entered as the default gateway IP address for the
LAN channel (on the rst LAN conguration view) should be used as the gateway for this destination
IP address. If this checkbox is not checked, the backup gateway IP address is used as the gateway
IP address. If no backup gateway was specied when the LAN channel conguration was done, this
checkbox will not be displayed.