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March 10th, 2011 17:00

IPMI over LAN

Can someone pls tell what IPMI over LAN is and when it should be enabled?

Thx,

John Bradshaw

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March 11th, 2011 08:00

IPMI over LAN is the ability to establish remote connectivity.  The 2900 is IPMI 2.0 compliant, the 2800 is 1.5 compliant.  This configuration is done via the BMC .


Pre-OS Configuration (BMC walk-thru)
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/ps4q04-20040204-murphy.pdf

OS Configuration:
http://support.dell.com/support/systemsinfo/document.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=slg&~file=/software/smbmcmu/1.2/en/ug/bmcugc0d.htm

IPMI Details
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface

 

 

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March 13th, 2011 14:00

Thx Todd

JB

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September 21st, 2016 10:00

@TODD PIETZSCH 

i have IPMI over the LAN disable and still i can connect to IDRAC remotely, so is this for connectivity for KVM  ?? because i am getting connection failed error while connecting kvm,  so is that IPMI for remote kvm console connectivity?? 

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