Specifications

Hardware Management

IPMI-over-LAN

AremotemanagementapplicationcanestablishanIPMI‐over‐LANsessionwiththeIPMC.

TheIPMCisremotelyaccessiblethroughthefrontserialport(COM1),therearserialport

(COM2),andtheBaseEthernetports.TheCPMimplementsIPMI‐over‐LANusingRMCP

andRMCP+asdescribedintheIPMI2.0specification.TheIPMI‐over‐LANsessioncanbe

usedtoenablethefunctionalitydescribedinSerial‐over‐LANonpage 65.

Configuring IPMI-over-LAN access

TheCPMmustbeinitiallyconfiguredtomakeIPMI‐over‐LANaccessavailable.TheIPMC

savestheconfigurationchangesinnon‐volatileRAMsotheyarenotlostduringreboots,

hot‐swaps,orfirmwareupgrades.

Before you begin

1. Gatherthefollowingresources:

•AremotecomputerwithnetworkaccesstotheShelfManagerintheshelfwiththe

CPM.

Note:TheinitialstepscanberundirectlyontheCPM’sCPUasanalternative.

•Anrsys‐ipmitoolutility(availableonthePromentumsoftwareinstallationCD).

2. Bepreparedtofillinvaluesforthesevariables:

<ShMgr_IP>

TheIPaddressoftheShelfManager.

<IPMB>

TheIPMBaddressoftheCPMintheshelf.

TheIPMIchannelnumberrepresentingaCPMBaseinterfacechannel

orthefront/rearEthernetinterfacechannel.Channel02represents

theBaseinterfacechannelthatconnectstothehubmoduleinthe

lower‐numberedslot,andchannel03connectstothehubmodulein

thehigher‐numberedslot.

Channel08representsETHA

onthefrontpanelandchannel09

representsETHBonthefrontpaneliftheCPMisconfiguredforFront

EthernetinBIOSsetup.IfitisconfiguredforRearEthernetintheBIOS,

Channel08isETHAandChannel09isETHBontheRTM.

<IP>

ThestaticIPaddresstoassigntoeachCPMBaseinterfacechanneland

thefrontandrearEthernetinterfacechannels.

Theprotocoltouse(lanforRMCPorlanplusforRMCP+).The

configurationstepsaredoneonlyonceandapplytobothprotocols.