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SUPERSERVER 5015A-EHF User's Manual
IPMI Confi guration
Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is a set of common interfaces that
IT administrators can use to monitor system health and to manage the system as a
whole. For more information on the IPMI specifi cations, please visit Intel's website
at www.intel.com. Note: For this particular motherboard, IPMI shares the same
network interface with LAN1.
IPMI Firmware Revision
This item displays the current IPMI fi rmware revision.
Status of BMC
Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) manages the interface between system
management software and platform hardware. This is an informational feature which
returns the status code of the BMC micro controller.
View BMC System Event Log
This feature is used to view any BMC events. It shows the total number of entries
and will allow the viewing of each event by scrolling down on an Entry Number
and pressing Enter.
Clear BMC System Event Log
This feature is used to clear the System Event Log. Caution: Any cleared information
is unrecoverable. Make absolutely sure you no longer need any data stored in the
log before clearing the BMC Event Log.
Set LAN Confi guration
Set this feature to confi gure the IPMI LAN adapter with a network address.
Channel Number - Enter the channel number for the SET LAN Confi g com-
mand. This is initially set to [1]. Press "+" or "-" on your keyboard to change
the Channel Number.
Channel Number Status - This feature returns the channel status for the
Channel Number selected above: "Channel Number is OK" or "Wrong Channel
Number".
IP Address Source - This feature selects whether the IP address, Subnet
Mask and Gateway Address are automatically assigned by the network's DHCP
server (Dynamic Host and Confi guration Protocol) or manually entered by the
user (Static). If Static is selected, the IP Address, Subnet Mask and Gateway
Address must be manually entered below. If DHCP is selected, the next three
items will be confi gured automatically and will be grayed out. The options are
Static and DHCP.