American Megatrends MegaRAC G3, User Manual

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Chapter Three : Locating Your MegaRAC G3 Card 33
Chapter 3 Locating Your MegaRAC G3
Card
Overview
The American Megatrends MegaRAC family of server and system remote management
cards can be accessed from anywhere on your Intranet through an Internet browser. This
is a great way to maintain your critical server when you are nowhere near it.
This chapter explains how to locate your MegaRAC G3 card on your local network.
Locating Your MegaRAC G3 Card
In order to connect to the MegaRAC G3 card, you must access the MegaRAC G3 from
another system on the same network. This document refers to this other system as the
client system. To do this, you must know the MegaRAC G3 card’s IP address. If you
have installed the MegaRAC G3 on a network that uses DHCP, you can search the
network for the MegaRAC G3 card. To locate and find out its IP address, you must run
RacTrendsSeek Locator .
Note: To get or set the IP address on your MegaRAC G3 card in a Windows 2000/XP
environment, you can also run the
G3ConfigApp program on the host system. See
Appendix B , G3ConfigApp for more information on how to use the G3ConfigApp
program.
Note:
Make sure that you have already installed the MegaRAC G3 Windows Software
Components on the system that you want to use to locate the MegaRAC G3 card.
Follow the steps in the table below to connect to the MegaRAC G3 from a remote client
system:
Step Description
1 Locate the RacTrendsSeek Locator program on your remote client system. Run the RacTrendsSeek
Locator program by double left clicking on it.
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