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Date:      Wed, 17 May 2006 17:05:01 +0100
From:      Howard Jones <howie@thingy.com>
To:        Jason Lixfeld <jason+lists.freebsd-questions@lixfeld.ca>,  freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [freebsd-questions] Questions about monitoring Dell servers
Message-ID:  <446B49AD.2070805@thingy.com>
In-Reply-To: <040C0BC2-E889-4015-831A-25771CB7502A@lixfeld.ca>
References:  <4F6E19E5-CB85-40E8-8E00-42EDCD9483F2@lixfeld.ca>	<20060516130121.1660ab5d.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>	<BE65CAE7-17E7-4322-B022-3D49B82A2885@lixfeld.ca>	<20060517084014.2ae43ecf.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <040C0BC2-E889-4015-831A-25771CB7502A@lixfeld.ca>

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Jason Lixfeld wrote:
> Well, I managed to sort it out.  The grey area was that the Dell BMC 
> just needed an IP, username and password configured on it.  I was 
> under the mistaken impression that the OpenIPMI needed to be installed 
> to speak the BMC, but ipmitools does that just fine.  Between the BMC 
> and megarc for the raid status, I have everything I need!  Well, with 
> the exception of SNMP traps -- still haven't figured out how to set 
> the trap host and community, but if worst comes to worst, I can use 
> used net-snmp and use the exec options in snmpd.conf.
>
Where does this IP address present itself? On an SC1425 we have here, I 
can set an IP etc in the BMC BIOS, but it lists a MAC address there that 
isn't the same as either of the GigE interfaces on the mobo.

Is it overlaid in some strange way, or do I need some sort of 
daughterboard? I'd like to get this going for all our Dells if I can.

Cheers,

Howie



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