Closed. This question needs details or clarity. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Add details and clarify the problem by editing this post. Closed 4 years ago. Improve this question How does IPMI differ from regular user-to-host SSH? From what I know, SSH is simply access to the terminal of … Read more
I am thinking of using Dell’s BMC on some servers that we house at a datacenter to ease remote monitoring/administration in the event of failures. I have some questions: It appears that I can configure BMC to use the same LAN that I plan to use for the O/S. Any drawback to this? Any performance … Read more
Let’s say I would like to send Get Device Id command from LAN channel to IPMB channel via BMC with message tracking, I need to go through those steps: Encapsulate Get Device Id command in Send Message command Send Send Message command from LAN to BMC providing required data like target IPMB address, all those … Read more
I have been preparing for a TrueSight deployment for some time now but would like to share my high level architecture with everyone and get some feedback as well as some questions I would like to solidify before continuing. The requirements in our environment are: Service Provider to Tenant Configuration (We are a managed services … Read more
So I start from the very beginning: I have a Supermicro X8DT3 running with ESXi 5 which is a host for a VM (old hardware, just for test purposes). Since I’m quite a noob regarding all this, I wanted to train and learn. I installed the Supermicro IPMIView software for monitoring the sensors like FANs … Read more
I need the uuid of some systems for ipxe booting purposes.. The problem is that these systems are powered off with no OS on them. I could power them on, but it would do me little good since they have no OS installed. I know that the uuid of a system can be obtained by … Read more
Is it common that the bmc becomes inaccessible (unable to ping, access from WebUI) when during reboot (sudo reboot)? It’s an Intel Server Board S7200AP. Answer AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : pjw91 , Answer Author : Community
I have several different SuperMicro servers and I want to create an internal repository with firmwares and create a package with updating utility. In the ipmi firmware archives that I downloaded from supermicro web site, they include update utility for linux. For older motherboards (for example, X9DRW-7TPF) it is called lUpdate, but for more modern … Read more
I find there is a way to automated hardware information collection. but what’s the principle ? why the Centre know a Server’s IPMI address then it can get the Server’s hardware information? Is there any protocol of BMC to provide this function? Answer Most BMC platforms offer SNMP as a management interface. It would likely … Read more
I’ve bought new( not used ) SuperMicro MBD-X11DPI and x2 – Intel Xeon Silver 4210R OEM Micron [MTA72ASS8G72PSZ-2S6E1] 64Gb Samsung [M393A8G40MB2-CTD] 64Gb When I’m booting, 10 different combinations of 2xCPU and different RAM modules give me always such picture: System Initializing… P1-DIMMA1:DIMM Mapped Out P1-DIMMA1(runtime)Failing DIMM: DIMM location MAP Failure All channels are disabled due … Read more
