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Sun Fire X2100 Server User Guide • April 2007
C.3.5
Setting Up the Console System
Use IPMItool v1.8.5 or greater version on the console system.
On the console system:
1. Download IPMItool v1.8.5 or greater version from the following URL:
http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net
2. Install the tool on the console system.
Note –
For the Red Hat version, you must open the IPMItool in an xterm window.
If you open it in a regular window, the ESC keys can hang the LAN on the SMDC
card, and you have to manually press the system reset button to get out of it.
3. Type
xterm
in a regular terminal window to start an xterm window.
4. Enter the
IPMItool
command with the following options to start the tool:
ipmitool -A password -H
first_ip_address
-I lan -U Admin -P
password
tsol
second_ip_address
Where the
first_IP_address
is the address of the X2100 SMDC card, the
password
variable is the password set up for the user in the SDMC, and the
second_ip_address
is the address of the console system.
The options in the IPMItool command have the following functions:
Option
Function
-U
User name
-I
Interface type
-P
password for user account on SMDC
-A
Means by which SMDC is administered.
-H
Host IP address
