Running Onboard Administrator for the first time
Setting up a Superdome 2 enclosure using the Onboard Administrator is simplified by using the
Insight Display setup process, followed by the use of the Onboard Administrator GUI First Time
Setup Wizard or Onboard Administrator CLI to complete the reset of the enclosure settings.
The Onboard Administrator modules and many interconnect modules default to DHCP for their
management IP address. If the user has DHCP and connects the Onboard Administrator management
port to the DHCP server, then the Onboard Administrator modules and interconnect modules
supporting and configured to use the Onboard Administrator internal management network
automatically get DHCP addresses from the user DHCP server.
If you do not have a DHCP server for assigning IP addresses to management processors, you must
configure each Onboard Administrator IP address and then all the individual device and interconnect
module management IP addresses by using one of the following methods:
•
Recommended practice
: Configure each Onboard Administrator with a static IP address using
the Insight Display. Then log in to the Onboard Administrator GUI and use the First Time Setup
Wizard or log in to the Onboard Administrator CLI and configure and enable EBIPA for device
bays and interconnect bays. Enabling EBIPA for a bay enables that server or interconnect
module to be replaced and the new module automatically gets the previously configured IP
address for that bay.
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Alternative
: Configure each device and interconnect module for static IP manually. For
Superdome 2 server blades, you must connect to each server blade from the SUV port (using
the SUV cable included with each compute enclosure) and configure the iLO IP address
manually during POST by pressing
F8
to access the iLO option ROM settings. For the
interconnect modules with management processors that can use the Onboard Administrator
management network, access and configure their IP address using either an external serial
console port or the Onboard Administrator CLI serial connection to that bay. After changing
the interconnect module IP address manually, the switch may require power cycling to use the
new setting.
The initial credentials to log on to a new Onboard Administrator module are printed on a label
on each module. The user is Administrator and the password is unique to each module. This
password must be captured by the installer and communicated to the remote Administrator for the
first remote logon to the Onboard Administrator GUI or Onboard Administrator CLI.
The enclosure settings can be configured manually or uploaded from a configuration script or file.
The web GUI offers a First Time Setup Wizard. The CLI can be accessed from the Onboard
Administrator serial port, Ethernet management port, service port, or by using the Enclosure KVM
- Onboard Administrator CLI button.
An alternative to manual configuration is to upload a enclosure configuration file to the active
Onboard Administrator using either the GUI or CLI with an HTTP, FTP or TFTP network location for
the configuration file, or use the GUI, CLI or Insight Display to upload a configuration file from a
USB key drive plugged into the active Onboard Administrator USB port.
The recommended practice to create an enclosure configuration file is to use the GUI, CLI, or Insight
Display USB Menu to save the existing configuration to a file. The saved configuration file is a set
of CLI text commands for each configuration item. The Onboard Administrator does not save user
passwords when it saves a configuration file. The user can edit the configuration file and insert the
password commands for each user account—or use the Administrator local account to individually
update all user passwords after restoring a previously saved enclosure configuration file.
If the enclosure contains redundant Onboard Administrator modules, the remaining Onboard
Administrator updates the new Onboard Administrator with all the settings.
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Introduction
