Specifications

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Operation and Maintenance
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rsys‐ipmitool‐Ilan‐H<ShMgr_IP>‐Anone‐t<IPMB>channelsetaccess<channel>
01ipmi=onlink=onprivilege=4
3. RepeatStep 2tosetaccesstotheotherchannel.
IPMI-over-LAN troubleshooting steps
1. Viewthecurrentsettingsforachannel:
rsys‐ipmitool‐I<protocol>‐H<ShMgr_IP>‐Anone‐t<IPMB>lanprint<channel>
2. VerifythattheIPaddressiscorrect.
3. Verifythatanon‐zeroMACaddressisset.
AMACaddressof00:00:00:00:00:00indicatestheEthernetcontrollerisnotrespondingto
queries.ThiscanoccuriftheEthernetcontrollerdoesnothavethecorrectEEPROMfile.
UpgradetheBaseEEPROMimageandthefront/rear
EthernetEEPROMimageusingthe
imagefilesandinstructionsfromtheRadisyssoftwaredistribution.
4. Repeatsteps1–3tocheckthesettingsfortheotherchannel.
Serial-Over-LAN
Serial‐over‐LAN(SOL)isthespecificationofpacketformatsandprotocolsfortransmitting
serialdataoveraLANusingIPMI‐over‐LANpackets.SOLoperationisconceptually
straightforward.AremotemanagementapplicationcanestablishanIPMI‐over‐LANsession
withtheIPMC.Oncethesessionisestablished,theremoteconsolecanrequestSOLsession
activation.
InSOLmode,anyoutgoingcharactersfromthePCHareassembledintopacketsbytheIPMC
andsenttotheremoteconsoleoveroneoftheBaseLANinterfaces.Conversely,inboundLAN
packetscarryingcharactersforthesystemserialcontrollerhavetheircharacterdataextracted
bytheIPMCanddeliveredtothebaseboardserialcontroller.
TheSOLcharacterdataiscontainedinSOLmessagescarriedinUDPdatagrams.Thepacket
formatis“IPMIv2.0RMCP+”withthepayloadtypesetto“SOL”.
Note:TheCPMsupportsoneSOLsessionatatime.Thesessionmustbeclosedbefore
anothersessioncanbe
opened(throughtheotherBaseinterfacechannel).