From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 17 16:05:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FE2A16A821 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 16:05:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: from mbox1.network-i.net (pop32.network-i.net [212.21.121.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C63E43D49 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 16:05:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: (qmail 72245 invoked by uid 0); 17 May 2006 16:05:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.1.1.134?) (212.21.99.52) by newmail.network-i.net with SMTP; 17 May 2006 16:05:14 -0000 Message-ID: <446B49AD.2070805@thingy.com> Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 17:05:01 +0100 From: Howard Jones User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Lixfeld , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4F6E19E5-CB85-40E8-8E00-42EDCD9483F2@lixfeld.ca> <20060516130121.1660ab5d.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <20060517084014.2ae43ecf.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <040C0BC2-E889-4015-831A-25771CB7502A@lixfeld.ca> In-Reply-To: <040C0BC2-E889-4015-831A-25771CB7502A@lixfeld.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Questions about monitoring Dell servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 16:05:21 -0000 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