Server Management Guide

Scenarios and Best Practices
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5 Scenarios and Best Practices
This chapter provides examples that show how to make the Intel
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Server Management Interface to
work. Topics covered in this chapter include:
 Configure BMC for OOB function using SYSCFG
 Configure BMC for OOB function using IDA
 Remotely manage Intel
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server use DPCCLI
5.1 Configure BMC using SYSCFG
To enable the BMC for out-of-band communication over a LAN connection, at a minimum you will
need to configure the following settings:
 IP source (static or DHCP)
 IP Address
 Subnet mask
 Default gateway (only required if you will be connecting from client outside of subnet)
 Enable one user
 Enable user’s privilege level
 Set users and passwords
 Enable text-based console redirection (serial Over LAN - SOL) if needed
5.1.1 Configure BMC users
Step-by-step instructions to use SYSCFG to configure BMC user authorization:
 Set password for BMC user 1 (Anonymous) by typing:
syscfg /u 1 “” “password” (password is “password” in this example)
 Enable the BMC user 1 on BMC channel 1 by typing:
syscfg /ue 1 enable 1
 Enable “admin” privilege and payload type to “SOL” for the BMC user 1 on BMC channel 1 by
typing:
syscfg /up 1 1 admin sol
5.1.2 Configure BMC for LAN connection
To use SYSCFG to configure BMC LAN connection, perform the following step:
 Configure the LAN channel IP info on BMC channel 1 by typing:
syscfg /le 1 static 192.168.1.12x 255.255.255.0