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Chris Dutrow
Asked: 2016-04-12 21:49:15 +0800 CST

IPMI / Remote management missing options for IP Address in BIOS

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Been trying to configure remote access and IPMI on this server, but the BIOS inexplicably does not have a space to configure an IP address. The screen shots in the manual show spaces for putting in the IP Address settings, and intuitively, they should be on this screen (Lan Settings menu).

Anyone run into a situation like this? I feel like there may be something off with the configuration elsewhere or perhaps even a jumper cable on the motherboard that needs to be adjusted?

More information

  • This is from a Supermicro board: X8DTT-F

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This is the screen shot from the manual: enter image description here

remote-access ipmi out-of-band-management

1 Answers

  1. I was not able to edit this information in the BIOS, instead I installed CentOS 7, then did this:

    Install ipmi tool

    yum install ipmitool

    load ipmi modules I still don't fully understand why I had to load the ipmitools modules separately here:

    modprobe ipmi_devintf
modprobe ipmi_msghandler
modprobe ipmi_si
modprobe ipmi_poweroff

    Configure IPMI using ipmitool instead of through the BIOS

    ipmitool lan set 1 ipsrc static            # <-- Set static IP address instead of DHCP
ipmitool lan set 1 ipaddr <ip_address>     #<-- Put the ip address you want it to have here, probably a local one like 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x
ipmitool lan set 1 netmask <network mask>  #<-- Set your netmask here (like 255.255.0.0) 
ipmitool lan set 1 defgw ipaddr <gateway> #<-- Set your gateway here (something like 10.1.1.1 or 192.168.1.1)
ipmitool lan set 1 access on
ipmitool user set name 5 <username>        #<-- Set user name for IPMI
ipmitool user set password 5 <password>    #<-- set password

    At this point, you should be able to access the IPMI through a web browser:

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