IPMI View User Guide Version 2.5 Copyright © 2003-2006 Super Micro Computer, Inc., All rights reserved.
Index 1. OVERVIEW...................................................................................................................................................... 2 2. SYSTEM MANAGEMENT............................................................................................................................. 3 3. LOGIN ............................................................................................................................................................. 10 4. IPM DEVICE ..........
IPMI View (IPMI Over LAN) 1. Overview IPMI View is management software based on IPMI specification version 1.5 - 2.0. IPMI View sends IPMI messages to and from the BMC (Base Management Card) on a remotely managed system. IPMI messages are encapsulated in RMCP (Remote Management Control Protocol) packets called “datagrams”. This method is also referred to as “IPMI over LAN”. The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) has defined RMCP for supporting pre-OS and OS-absent management.
2. System Management Menu Bar System View Sessions Logo System List Viewing Window Group List Status Area Figure 2-1 As shown in Figure 2-1, there are several components in the IPMI View window (Figure 2-2): 1) Menu Bar: contains functions allowing you to add/delete systems or groups and save configurations. 2) System List: lists the computers managed with a BMC card. 3) Group List: lists managed computer groups for more convenient management.
Figure 2-2 • Adding a new system to IPMI View Figure 2-3 As shown in Figure 2-3, click “File>New…>System” to add a new system to IPMI View. An “Add a new system…” dialog box will pop up as shown in Figure 2-4.
In the “Add a new system” dialog box, type in the desired System Name for the managed system and the correct IP address, as well as a description. Then click OK. • Adding a new group to IPMI View To maintain systems easier, the manager may categorize managed systems into different groups. A system may be included in multiple groups. The default group is “IPMI Domain”. All managed systems belong to IPMI Domain even if they join other groups.
Figure 2-6 • Reload Configuration From the pull-down menu, click “File>Reload Configuration” to load the previous saved configuration. • Save Configuration From the pull-down menu, click “File>Save Configuration” to save the current IPMI View configuration. • Exit IPMI View From the pull-down menu, click “File>Exit” or press Alt-F4 when the IPMI View is running to exit IPMI View. Remember to save your configuration before exiting.
You can also right click on a group in the Group Window and then select ”Modify” in the pop-up menu to modify it. • IMPI Security IPMIView can automatically detect the current IPMI version during the beginning of login phase. If you want to manually specify the protocol, you may check the “For Advanced User” box as shown in Figure 2-8 and select the following protocols for a specific system. Hardware: BMCB, Firmware:IPMI 1.5: Hardware: BMC2, Firmware:IPMI 2.0 non-RMCP+: Hardware: BMC2, Firmware:IPMI 2.
• Disjoin a group Double click the group you want to disjoin a system from. The members of that group will appear in the System Window. Then, select the system you want to disjoin and click “Edit>…Disjoin…” from the pull-down menu shown in Figure 2-7. You can also right click the selected system and then select “Disjoin” in the pop-up menu to delete it. • Timeout The timeout setting is shown in Figure 2-9.
• Closing IPMI View management session To close the opened IPMI View management session, select the IPMI View management session you want to close as the current IPMI View management session and then click “Session>Close <>” in the pull-down menu, where <> denotes the name of the system you want to close (as shown in Figure 2-10). Or - right click on the system in the System Window you want to close and select “Close Session” in the pop-up menu to close it.
3. Login • Login In Figure 3-1, double click the system in the System Window you want to manage. A login screen along with some information about the managed system will appear in the Viewing Window. Type in the login ID and password and click the Login button to log in. When a login is successful, the connection information will be shown at the bottom. The Login button is grayed (i.e. disabled) and the Logout button is enabled as well as the availability of other management functions.
The default Login ID is “ADMIN”,,which has the default password of “ADMIN”. Both the Login ID and Password are case-sensitive. In the IPMI design, an MD5 algorithm will encrypt the password when it’s transmitted through the network. (If you are connecting to IPMI 2.0 RMCP+, all the data will be transmited by an encrypted algorithm.) Once the password is confirmed, IPMI View will show a CONNECTED symbol, and all available function pages will be shown as seen in Figure 3-2.
4. IPM Device Figure 4-1 Clicking the IPM Device tab of the IPMI View management session in the Viewing Window (shown in Figure 4-1) will display some information and functions of the system’s BMC firmware. • Device Information This shows the revision levels of the BMC and IPMI firmware. • ACPI System Power State This shows the managed system’s power state. If the managed system is in a power-off state, the green light will be off. This status will update automatically every five seconds.
Graceful Reboot: same as the reboot function in Windows. Graceful Power Cycle: this function is a combination of the Graceful Shutdown and Power Up functions. The Power Cycle function will shut down the managed system for a few seconds and then power up the system. Graceful power control will send an event to the System Event Log (next section). If no more memory space is left for the incoming event, graceful power control will not function.
5. System Event Log Figure 5-1 Clicking on the Event Log tab of the IPMI View management session in the Viewing Window (shown in Figure 5-1) gives you detailed information on the System Event Log for the BMC. It shows the System Event Log version, number of log entries, free space for the System Event Log and the times of recently added and recently erased System Event Logs.
• Clear System Event Log Clicking the Clear All Entries button clears the logged system events on the BMC. The total event log space is 16 KB. When all this space is used, any incoming event will be lost. The user has to clear the system event log manually as needed. • Time stamp of System Event Log and Time Zone To set the time stamp of the BMC on the managed system, type in the time in the Current SEL Device Timestamp field. Then click the Set Timestamp button to update the BMC.
6. Sensors Figure 6-1 Clicking on the Sensors tab of the IPMI View management session in the Viewing Window (as shown in Figure 6-1) provides you with detailed information on the sensors monitored by the BMC. It shows the reading of supported voltages and fan speeds and temperatures monitored by the BMC. The current reading is shown in yellow numbers, the high limits/low limits in red numbers and a description for the monitoring sensors in blue text beneath the monitoring sensor figures.
Figure 6-2 • Show History IPMI View provides a history chart for fans, temperatures and voltages. The yellow line indicates the reading corresponding to the sensor. A red line indicates a high or low limit. A blue line indicates the base value of 0 (zero). Check the “Show History” box to display these charts, as shown in Figure 6-3.
7. BMC Setting (Administrator only) Figure 7-1 Clicking on the BMC Setting tab of the IPMI View management session in the Viewing Window (as shown in Figure 7-1) gives you detailed information on the BMC LAN Configuration, SNMP trap configuration and serial communication port of the BMC. In order to support the power-down state management capability under the IPMI specification, the manager has to configure the proper MAC address for each IP address.
values, especially for the LAN MAC. If you enter the wrong LAN MAC, IPMI View will not be able to connect to that system any more. If you accidentally enter a wrong LAN MAC value, you may use the IPnMAC.exe command in the IPMI Solution/Utility subfolder on this CD to update it. To activate IPnMAC.exe,,which is a DOS command, you must first boot your managed system to DOS, and then execute IPnMAC.exe on the managed system.
8. Users b Figure 8-1 (For IPMI 2.0) Figure 8-2 (For IPMI 1.
Clicking on the Users tab of the IPMI View management session in the Viewing Window (as shown in Figure 8-1 and 8-2) gives you detailed information on the Users management, and the paging severity thresholds for IPMI 1.5. We strongly suggest you change passwords immediately to prevent malicious users getting control before you. • USERS There are several buttons that allow you to add/delete a user, set user privileges, change passwords and enable/disable paging.
Figure 8-3 • FRU (Only for IPMI 2.0) Here useful information may be found about the board and product, for example the serial number, part number and part name of the board and product. • PAGING / SEVERITY (Only for IPMI 1.5) The paging severity settings define when users will be notified of entries in the system event log (SEL). The following settings are available for each group: None When this is selected, user notification for this group is inactive.
9. Text Console Redirection (SOL, Serial Over LAN) Figure 9-1 On the Text Console tab of the IPMI View management session in the Viewing Window (as shown in Figure 9-1), there is a function that allows you to remotely control the managed system from a text mode console. Click the Start button to start the text console redirection. During control, click the ReSynch button to synchronize the text console with the managed system if you think the screen is not shown properly.
Redirection on Windows 2003, Special Administration Console (SAC) must be enabled. The following instruction is used to enable SAC: 1. Enable Console Redirection in BIOS, and set it to COM 2 (or COM B) 2. Modify boot.ini in C:\. Boot.ini is a hidden file. Below is an example of boot.
10. Video Console Redirection (KVM over IP) Video Console Redirection is a new feature included in Supermicro IPMI. In the Video Console Redirection tab, the remote screen will be redirected to IPMIView if this function is enabled. BIOS POST, BIOS settings, DOS, Windows or Linux OS screens can all be redirected to IPMIView. Furthermore, it provides a drive redirection function for mounting your local device as a virtual device for a remote managed system.
Toolbar As shown in Figure 10-2, there are several tool buttons used for the video console. Start Video Redirection Stop Video Redirection Full Screen Screen Capture Quick Shot Open or Close Quick Shot Panel Open Drive Redirection Auto Adjust Screen Options Send Ctrl+Alt+Del to Remote Zoom Out Select Percentage for Scaling Screen Zoom In Figure 10-2 Video Console Toolbar • Start Video Redirection This button is for starting video redirection.
• Screen Capture This button is for capturing screenshots of remote managed systems. You will see a file save dialog box with a preview image. Select the directory and filename to save it. The file format can be PNG or JPG. • Quick Shot This button is for quick screenshots. You will first need to specify a directory for saved quick shot images. You will see the quick shot images in the quick shot panel. Please refer to Figure 10-4.
• Zoom Out This button is for zooming out. The maximum zoom out percentage is 10%. Please refer to Figure 10-6. Zoom Out Figure 10-6 • Select percentage for Scaling Screen This is a combo box for selecting the percentage of screen scaling, either 10%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, 200%, 250% or 300%. An additional selection allows you to scale to fit with the IPMIView window size. • Send Ctrl + Alt + Del to Remote This is a button for sending Ctrl + Alt + Del key combination to remote.
Drive redirection can use your CD-ROM or hard driver as a virtual device for a remote system. In the Drive direction panel, select which drive you want to be a virtual device for a remote system and press connect. The remote managed system will recognize it as an external USB device. See Figure 10-8 for reference. Figure 10-8 Drive Redirection Panel • Auto Adjust Screen This is a button for auto adjusting the screen. Press this button if it’s difficult to see the whole screen.
o Soft Keyboard: A virtual keyboard for easy input. It also provides localized keyboard mapping. Please refer to Figure 10-11. Figure 10-11 Soft Keyboard o Local Keyboard: Sets local keyboard mapping. o Encoding: This is encoding for the video screen. Encoding options are “Predefined”, “Compression” or “Color Depth”. Status Bar Figure 10-12 shows the video redirection status bar.
11. Group Management Group management is a way to manage multiple servers at the same time. For example, you can query the fan sensor reading from multiple servers and note their differences. Also, you can simultaneously power on or off multiple servers at the same time. As shown in Figure 11-1, click Manage>Group to show group management. In group management, you can select multiple servers from the host group on the left and manage them with the functions provided.
Sensors Event Log ACPI Power LAN Config FRU Text Console General Info Figure 11-3 Fan Figure 11-4 shows the view after selecting multiple servers and clicking on the Fan tab. You can use Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click for selecting servers. Clicking “Query” button will then have IPMIView collect the fan readings from the selected servers. The information listed in the table show the fan status of the selected servers. If the fan reading is in red it means the fan may be broken or not installed.
Figure 11-5 shows a screen after selecting multiple servers and clicking the Temperature tab. On clicking the “Query” button, IPMIView will collect the temperature reading from the selected servers. The information listed in the table show the temperature status of the selected servers. Figure 11-5 Voltage Figure 11-6 shows a screen after selecting multiple servers and clicking the Voltage tab. Clicking the “Query” tab will collect the voltage readings from the selected servers.
Sensors Figure 11-7 shows the screen when selecting multiple servers and clicking the Sensors tab. Clicking the “Query” button has IPMIView collect the sensor readings from the selected servers. The information listed in the table show the sensors status of the selected servers. The sensors here are chassis status and power supply status. If the chassis was opened or a power supply failed, the reading will be in red.
ACPI Figure 11-9 shows selecting multiple servers and clicking the ACPI tab. Clicking the “Query” button has IPMIView collect the ACPI state from the selected servers. The table displays the ACPI state of the selected servers. Figure 11-9 Power Figure 11-10 shows selecting multiple servers and clicking the Power tab. Click one of the power control buttons to send that command to the selected server. The text area shows the result of power control.
LAN Config Ffigure 11-11, shows the LAN and SNMP Configurations after selecting a single server and clicking the LAN Config tab. Clicking “Query” gets the information from a single server. Once you get the data, you may copy this data to another server or to multiple servers if you want the data to be the same. The text area shows the results of a query and update. The clear button is for clearing the text field only; it will not clear the actual LAN configuration from the server.
Text Console Figure 11-13 shows selecting a single server and clicking the Text Console tab. Clicking the “Open” button has IPMIView create an internal text console window for the selected server. Click Start to start the text console redirection. There are power control buttons in the status bar, which provide power on, power off and Reset commands for an easy way to turn on or off a remote server. The Encode checkbox is for RMCP+ encoding. Check it to enable packet encoding between IPMIView and a server.
12. Trap Receiver Trap Receiver is a utility used for receiving traps from the BMC. In the event of a sensor error or a sensor reading that exceeds a threshold, the BMC will send SNMP traps to the destinations set in BMC. Trap Receiver is executed on the destination site and receives the SNMP trap from multiple senders (BMC). If you select a category you can see all the traps in that category. Furthermore, when you click a trap in the trap list, you can see its details in the Trap Structure window.
o o o o Save: saves the received traps into a file. Load: loads a saved trap file into Trap Receiver. Clear: clears all the traps in the trap list. Email: displays an Email alert setting dialog box (see Figure 12-3). Fill in the SMTP server, From (email address) and To (email address) fields. Please notice that the From and To email addresses must be valid in the SMTP server. If the SMTP server requires authentication, please fill in the username and password fields.
Once a category has been selected, the filter condition will be shown at the bottom of the trap list. See Figure 12-5 as an example: the filter is “Sender = 192.168.10.245, Community = public, Sensor = CPU 1”. The trap list displays only those traps whose contents are included in each of the three filters. Figure 12-5 • Trap Structure The Trap Structure displays detailed trap information for the selected item in the trap list. Information includes the SNMP Header, PDU Header, PDU Body, Bind and PET data.
• Receiving a Trap When the Trap Receiver receives a trap from the BMC, an alert bar will pop up on the screen and remain for 10 seconds to notify you that a trap has occurred. In addition, an email alert will be sent out according to the information field settings in the Email Alert dialog box. Please refer to Figure 12-7. The email content will include the following information: A SNMP trap received Sender:192.168.10.
