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QSSC-S4R Server System Product Guide Chapter 3: Server Utilities

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Other Tools

In addition, the BMC can be accessed by standard, off-the-shelf terminal or terminal emulator utilities such as

open source IPMITOOL or IPMIUtility that allow access to sensor status information, and power control.

The end user owns the risk of using un-validated open source utilities.

Scenarios and best practices

This chapter provides examples that show how to make the QSSC-S4R server platform Server Management

interface to work. Topics covered in this chapter include:

 Configure BMC for OOB function using SYSCFG

 Remotely manage Intel server use DPCCLI

Configure Integrated BMC

This is the step-by-step minimum configuration requirements to enable the Integrated BMC for out-of-band

communication over a LAN connection.

Minimum configuration requirements:

1. IP source (static or DHCP), IP Address, Subnet mask

2. Enable one user and set password for this user

3. Enable user’s privilege level

4. Enable text-based console redirection (serial Over LAN - SOL), if needed

The Intel® System Configuration Utility (SysCfg) is used to configure the BMC for out-of-band management.

SysCfg is a command-line utility that can be used to save and restore BIOS and firmware settings to a file or to

set and display individual settings. SysCfg supports EFI, Windows Pre-installation Environment (WinPE),

Microsoft Windows OS and Linux OS. The SysCfg utility for Windows must be installed on the managed server.

For detailed information on configuring the Integrated BMC using the SYSCFG utility, refer to the document

available at http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/CS-022714.htm.

Integrated BMC User account configuration

Perform the following steps to configure the Integrated BMC user account settings on the managed server

system in order to set the Integrated BMC user password, enable the Integrated BMC user on a Integrated BMC

LAN specific channel and to assign the user privilege level to the Integrated BMC user:

1. Double-click the command prompt icon on the desktop to open a command prompt window.

2. Verify the home directory is c:\syscfg before continuing to the next step. If it is something else, change

directory to c:\syscfg before continuing.

Note: All of the following command lines are issued from the home directory c:\syscfg using the

Microsoft Windows Command Prompt.

3. To set the password for BMC user 2 (root), type

syscfg /u 2 “password”

4. To enable the BMC user 2 on BMC channel 1, type

syscfg /ue 2 enable 1

5. To enable “admin” privilege and payload type to “SOL” for the BMC user 2 on BMC channel 1, type

syscfg /up 2 1 admin sol