OK it’s not that much of an advantage right now as I can easily reach under my desk but once the server is out of reach then the option to reboot is nice. Here’s the one of the reasons I really like the IPMIView application: I suggest you change the password RIGHT NOW (click on the USERS tab and do so). On initial contact, the default username is ADMIN, the default password (you are guessing it …) ADMIN in upper case. Once discovered, you can save your server(s) to the interface and connect. If you are unsure which IP you assigned to your IPMI interface you can instruct the software to perform a scan which is quite useful. In VMware workstation you might have to change the bridged network definition and ensure that it is bridging to the LAN port, not WLAN as it did in my case. To connect to your server, you obviously need a bridge network interface in your virtual machine. Bizarrely that fails unless you are root on my system! That’s it-change directory to where IPMIView has been installed and launch it. It comes with its own-just be sure not to use it for anything but IPMIView, it seems to be an old one: 1.6.03. Although JVM based, you don’t need to download a JRE beforehand. It will then open an installer wizard that guides you through the installation. Execute the file (note it requires an X11 DISPLAY).Make the file executable: chmod u+x IPMIView…bin.Download IPMIView from the Supermicro website:.However I couldn’t get it to install at all until I found a great source how to do so. Since I didn’t want to install a lot of application on my laptop I opted to install IPMIView for Linux on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS desktop running within a virtual machine. The suitable application to access your KVM is called IPMIView, and it’s available for MacOS, Linux and Windows. The interface can be accessed from a dedicated software or a web browser. The board I have comes with an IPMI interface, and has a KVM over IP ability. The nice thing about professional hardware is that you do not need a keyboard or mouse, or even a monitor. So this is slightly off topic, as it doesn’t deal with anything directly related to Oracle, it’s more a reference to those who are using Supermicro boards like I do.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |