Dell PowerEdge C6145 - User Manual

Using the WEB UI | 7 Using Your Remote Management Controller: The Remote Management Controller has a user-friendly Graphics User Interface (GUI) called the Remote Management Controller GUI . It is designed to be easy to use. It has a low learning curve because it uses a standard Internet browser. De...

Using the WEB UI | 8 Remote Management Controller GUI Explained After you successfully log in to your Remote Management Controller, you are greeted with the Remote Management Controller GUI . Logout Log out from your Remote Management Controller The default timeout value is 30 seconds. System Inform...

Using the WEB UI | 9 List FRU The List FRU page shows a list of the detected Field Replaceable Units (FRUs) in the system. Select a FRU item from the drop down list to show more information. Chassis Information Lists the Type, Part Number and the Serial Number of the FRU. Board Information Lists the...

Using the WEB UI | 10 Server Health The Sensor menu provides information about system hardware such as the fan speed, internal temperature, and voltage. Sensor Readings & Sensor Readings with Thresholds It reads the sensor information the system. You can select a sensor type category . You can c...

Using the WEB UI | 11 Event Log The System Event Log (SEL) page displays system events that occur on the managed system. The SEL is generated by the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) or BIOS on the managed system. The SEL lists the following information about system events: event ID, time stamp,...

Using the WEB UI | 12 Configuration Alerts When the BMC senses a platform event, such as an environmental warning or a component failure, an alert message can be sent to one or more email addresses. The Alerts window enables you to enter email addresses, IP addresses, and to activate the alerts for ...

Using the WEB UI | 14 2 Select Alert Type , there are two options, Snmp Trap and Email . 3 Select Event Severity , The five options available are, Disable All, Informational, Warning, Critical and Non-recoverable. 4 If your Alert Type is Snmp Trap, type the destination IP.

Using the WEB UI | 15 5 If your Alert Type is Email, enter the destination email address, and enter a brief description for the Subject of the email. 6 Click Save .

Using the WEB UI | 16 Mouse mode It is an option to set up mouse mode which will using in KVM. Setting mouse mode depends on OS can get accurate mouse pointer. Absolute mode for host’s system is Windows OS Relative mode for host’s system is Linux OS. Network Show the Remote Management Controller IP ...

Using the WEB UI | 17 SMTP Set E-mail (SMTP) server IP address for sending alert notification to user then click “ Save ”.

Using the WEB UI | 19 Enter user name, IPMI version, password, confirm password and network privileges, click Add .

Using the WEB UI | 21 Remote Control Power Control This feature enables the administrator to power on, power off, power cycle, and reset the system remotely. Select Remote Control in menu bar. Click Power Control. Select a Power Control Operation . Table 1-4 list the power control operation; Table 2...

Using the WEB UI | 22 Click Perform Action to enable the selected Power Control Operation . Console Redirection The Console Redirection page enables you to use the display, mouse, and keyboard on the local management station to control the corresponding devices on a remote managed system. You can ru...

Using the WEB UI | 24 2 Click Java Console . 3 And click Mouse item to Sync Cursor .

Using the WEB UI | 25 BMC Virtual Media The Device menu allows you to virtualize a diskette image or drive. Virtual media enables a floppy image, floppy drive or CD/DVD drive on your system to be available on the managed system's console as if the floppy image or drive were present on the local syst...

Using the WEB UI | 26 Virtualizing Devices The Device client displays the list of devices available for mapping in the main window. To virtualize a device, select the checkbox in the Mapped column of the table. The device maps to the server at this point. To unmap, deselect the checkbox. And then se...

Using the WEB UI | 27 Unmapping a Virtual Media Drive To unmap a virtual media drive, select the Mapped check box for a particular drive. Because some interaction might be going on with the drive, you must confirm the action before the drive is unmmapped. NOTE: The assigned virtual drive letter (Mic...

Using the WEB UI | 28 BMC KVM The BMC KVM client main menu consists of five menu options, which are used to provide access to functions available through the viewer: Video , Keyboard , Mouse , Options , Device , and Help . To launch a KVM session, select Remote Control tag, click Console Redirection...

Using the WEB UI | 29 Keyboard Table 2-6. BMC KVM Keyboard menu items Dropdown Menu Items Description Hold Right CTRL Key This menu item can be used to act as the right- side <CTRL> key when in Console Redirection. Hold Right ALT Key This menu item can be used to act as the right- side <ALT...

Using the WEB UI | 31 Options Bandwidth: Helps in regulated the network bandwidth. Video Settings: Helps in adjust video resolution. Device Table 2-7. BMC KVM Device Menu Items Dropdown Menu Items Description Redirect CDROM Enable you to start or stop the redirection of the CD-ROM drive. You can cho...

Using the WEB UI | 32 Dropdown Menu Items Description Redirect ISO Enable you to start or stop the redirection of the ISO. You can choose the CD IMAGE file from client computer. Redirect Floppy / USB Enable you to start or stop the redirection of the Floppy/USB drive. You can choose the Floppy/USB d...

Using the WEB UI | 33 2 Browse to, or Type the path on your system where the firmware image file resides. Example: C:\<Product Name>\KCSFlash\<image_name> 3 Select the Update Type as Normal or Forced (The default value is Normal ). Normal: An update operation will occur only when the BMC...

Using the WEB UI | 34 5 A window, telling that the firmware image has been verified, appears. Compare the uploaded image with existing device firmware version. 6 Select the Preserve Configuration or Don’t Preserve Configuration (The default value is Preserve Configuration ). 7 Click Start Upgrade .

Using the WEB UI | 35 The update might take several minutes. 8 The update is completed. Close the session and automatically log out.

Using the WEB UI | 36 9 After the BMC resets, click Log In to log in to the BMC again.

Sensors Threshold | 37 3 Sensors Threshold Table 3-1. Sensors Threshold Sensor Number Sensor Name The Converting Formula Upper non- recoverable Upper critical Upper non- critical Lower non- recoverable Lower critical Lower non- critical Fan 01h FCB FAN1 Actual_Reading (RPM) = Raw_Data x 100 0xFF 0xF...

Events Table | 40 4 Events Table Table 4-1. Threshold Sensors Event Sensor Number Sensor Name Sensor Type Events 01h FCB FAN1 04h(Fan) Lower Critical – going low asserted Lower Critical – going low deasserted 02h FCB FAN2 03h FCB FAN3 04h FCB FAN4 21h MLB TEMP 1 01h (Temperature) Upper Non-critical ...

IPMI 1.5 / 2.0 Command Support List | 44 5 IPMI 1.5 / 2.0 Command Support List Table 5-1. IPMI Device Global Commands Command NetFn CMD O/M Supported Get Device ID App 01h M Yes Cold Reset App 02h O Yes Warm Reset App 03h O No Get Self Test Results App 04h M Yes Manufacture Test On App 05h O Yes Set...

IPMI OEM Command List | 52 6 IPMI OEM Command List Table 6-1. OEM1 Commands (NetFn 30H, 31H) Command NetFN cmd Format Reserved Extended Configuration OEM1 01H Request: Response: Byte 1 – completion code Byte 2 - Reservation ID Get Extended Configuration OEM1 02H Request: Byte 1 - Reservation ID Byte...

IPMI OEM Command List | 53 Command NetFN cmd Format Set Extended Configuration OEM1 03H Request: Byte 1 - Reservation ID Byte 2 - Configuration ID Byte 3 - Attribute ID. 00h means read entire configuration data. Byte 4 - Index (used by table object only) Byte 5 - Data Offset – LSB Byte 6 - Data Offs...

IPMI OEM Command List | 54 Command NetFN cmd Format Restore to defaults OEM1 04H Request: Byte 1 -Configuration to be restored to defaults: [7:5] 111b= Restore the remaining parameters not included in below lists. 000b= Remaining parameters stay what it is. All other values are reserved [4] 1b= Rest...

IPMI OEM Command List | 56 get web port number oem2 03H Request: Response: Byte 1 – completion code Byte 2 – Https Port Number(Low Byte) Byte 3 – Https Port Number(High Byte) Byte 4 – Http Port Number(Low Byte) Byte 5 – Http Port Number(High Byte) get board id oem2 11H Request: Response: Byte 1 – co...

IPMI OEM Command List | 58 SET FSC TABLE oem2 63H Request: Byte 1 – FSC Table Setting Byte 1 – completion code Byte 2 – FSC Table Setting [7] – Enabled/Disabled FAN Table 0h: Disabled (Default) 1h: Enabled [6:0] – Fan Table Setting(0-based) 80h: 1st FSC fan table (default: 13800RPM) 81h: 2nd FSC fan...

IPMI OEM Command List | 60 Table 6-3. OEM3 Commands (NetFn 2EH, 2Fh) Command NetFN cmd Format OemGetBMCSK U Oem3 75H Request: Response: Byte 1 – completion code Byte 2 - BMC SKU 00h AST2050 01h AST1100

IPMI OEM Command List | 61 Extended Configurations Table 6-4. Extended configurations Extended Configurations All strings are in P-String format. Configuration ID = 02h, NIC Attribute ID Size Description NicSelection 1 1 Specifies the current mode of operation for the BMC network interface. 0: Share...

IPMI OEM Command List | 64 Whenever this setting is modified, the number of authentication failure of each enabled user must be reset to 0. Default setting is 180 seconds. Lockout Time 4 2 Specifies the time period an account should be disabled if the maximum number of authentication failures is rea...

IPMI OEM Command List | 65 Account Status 4 1 Status of the account. This is the supplement to the byte 3 of response data of Get User Access command. Indexed by user ID. 00h = status is unspecified 01h = user ID is enabled via Set User Password 02h = user ID is disabled via Set User Password 03h = ...

IPMI OEM Command List | 66 character must be alphabetic. The default name is bmc- service_tag , where service_tag is the service tag number of the Dell server. For example: bmc- XG3487A. DNS Domain Name Dhcp Enable 6 1 Specifies that the DNS domain name should be assigned from the DHCP server. 0: FA...

IPMI OEM Command List | 70 Configuration ID = 11h, Power Management Attribute ID Size Description Power Management Enable 1 1 Specify the use of power management method. Bit 7: Enable DPNM power management 1b = enable DPNM 0b = disable DPNM Bit 6:0: reserved R/W Power Staggering AC Recovery 2 1 This...

Appendix | 71 Appendix SSH/Telnet Enable and Disable 1 Reserved Extended Configuration (NetFn: 30H CMD:01H) 2 Set/Get Extended Configuration(NetFn: 30H CMD:03H/02H) Example: Get SSH/Telnet enable status: 1 Reserved Extended Configuration ipmitool raw 0x30 0x01 Response: 0x01 (Reservation ID) Configu...

Appendix 72 2 Get Extended Configuration ipmitool raw 0x30 0x02 0x01 0x04 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00 0xFF Response: 0x04 0x01 0x00 0x01 0x08 (SSH/Telnet disabled) Set SSH/Telnet Enable: 1 Reserved Extended Configuration ipmitool raw 0x30 0x01 Response: 0x02 (Reservation ID) 2 Enable SSH/Telnet ipmitool raw...

Appendix | 73 Set SSH/Telnet SOL Redirect enable: 1 Reserved Extended Configuration ipmitool raw 0x30 0x01 Response: 0x02 (Reservation ID) 2 Enable SSH/Telnet SOL redirect. ipmitool raw 0x30 0x03 0x02 0x03 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x01 (set 1 to enable) Response: 0x01 VLAN ID User can use LAN config...

Appendix 74 VLAN ID matches the VLAN ID value given in this parameter. [6:4] - reserved [3:0] - most significant four bits of the VLAN ID Example: 1 Get LAN Configuration Parameter command: ipmitool raw 0xC0 0x02 0x01 0x14 0x00 0x00 Response: 0x00 0x11 0x01 0x80 (VLAN Enable and VLAN ID: 1) 2 Set LA...

Appendix | 75 Byte 4 Firmware Revision 1 [7] Device available: 0=normal operation, 1= device firmware, SDR Repository update or self-initialization in progress. [Firmware / SDR Repository updates can be differentiated by issuing a Get SDR command and checking the completion code.] [6:0] Major Firmwa...

Appendix 76 BIOS version Info The BIOS enables the system interface to the BMC and logs this event to the BMC early in POST. User can find the BIOS version in event record byte 15-16 as following table: POST START Event Byte Item Data 1-2 Record ID - 3 Record Type - 4-7 Timestamp - 8-9 Generator ID ...