Dell Drac 5 User Manual

Monitoring and Alert Management251
Testing e-mail Alerting
The RAC e-mail alerting feature allows users to receive e-mail alerts when a 
critical event occurs on the managed system. The following example shows 
how to test the e-mail alerting feature to ensure that the RAC can properly 
send out e-mail alerts across the network.
racadm testemail -i 2
 NOTE: Ensure that the SMTP and Email Alert settings are configured before testing 
the e-mail alerting feature. See Configuring E-Mail Alerts for more...

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To set the DRAC 5 community name, use the following command: 
racadm config -g cfgOobSnmp -o 
cfgOobSnmpAgentCommunity <
community name>
To prevent SNMP authentication traps from being generated, you must enter 
community names that will be accepted by the agent. Since the DRAC 5 only 
allows one community name, you must use the same get and set community 
name for IT Assistant discovery setup. 

Configuring Intelligent Platform Management Interface 
Configuring Intelligent Platform 
Management Interface (IPMI)
Configuring IPMI
This section provides information about configuring and using the DRAC 5 
IPMI interface. The interface includes the following:
 IPMI over LAN
 IPMI over Serial
 Serial over LAN
The DRAC 5 is fully IPMI 2.0 compliant. You can configure the DRAC IPMI 
using:
 your browser
 an open source utility, such as 
ipmitool
 the Dell OpenManage IPMI shell, ipmish
 RACADM.
For more...

254Configuring Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
cIn the Network Configuration page under IPMI LAN Settings, select 
Enable IPMI Over LAN and click Apply Changes.
dUpdate the IPMI LAN channel privileges, if required. 
 NOTE: This setting determines the IPMI commands that can be executed 
from the IPMI over LAN interface. For more information, see the IPMI 2.0 
specifications.
Under IPMI LAN Settings, click the Channel Privilege Level Limit 
drop-down menu, select 
Administrator, Operator,...

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4Configure IPMI Serial.
aIn the Configuration tab, click Serial.
bIn the Serial Configuration menu, change the IPMI serial connection 
mode to the appropriate setting.
Under 
IPMI Serial, click the Connection Mode Setting drop-down 
menu, select the appropriate mode.
cSet the IPMI Serial baud rate.
Click the
 Baud Rate drop-down menu, select the appropriate baud 
rate, and click 
Apply Changes.
dSet the Channel Privilege Level Limit.
Click...

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Configuring IPMI Using the RACADM CLI
1Login to the remote system using any of the RACADM interfaces. 
See Using RACADM Remotely.
2Configure IPMI over LAN.
Open a command prompt, type the following command, and press 
:
racadm config -g cfgIpmiLan -o cfgIpmiLanEnable 1
 NOTE: This setting determines the IPMI commands that can be executed from the 
IPMI over LAN interface. For more information, see the IPMI 2.0 specifications.
a
Update the...

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3Configure IPMI Serial over LAN (SOL).
At the command prompt, type the following command and press 
:
racadm config -g cfgIpmiSol -o cfgIpmiSolEnable 1
aUpdate the IPMI SOL minimum privilege level.
 NOTICE: The IPMI SOL minimum privilege level determines the minimum 
privilege required to activate IPMI SOL. For more information, see the IPMI 2.0 
specification.
At the command prompt, type the following command and press 
:
racadm config -g...

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cEnable SOL.
 NOTE: SOL can be enabled or disabled for each individual user.
At the command prompt, type the following command and press 
:
racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o 
cfgUserAdminSolEnable -i 
 2
where  is the user’s unique ID.
4Configure IPMI Serial.
aChange the IPMI serial connection mode to the appropriate setting.
At the command prompt, type the following command and press 
:
racadm config -g cfgSerial -o 
cfgSerialConsoleEnable...

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dSet the IPMI serial channel minimum privilege level. 
At the command prompt, type the following command and press 
:
racadm config -g cfgIpmiSerial -o 
cfgIpmiSerialChanPrivLimit 

where  is one of the following:

2 (User)

3 (Operator)

4 (Administrator)
For example, to set the IPMI serial channel privileges to 2 (User), type 
the following command:
racadm config -g cfgIpmiSerial -o 
cfgIpmiSerialChanPrivLimit 2
eEnsure that the serial MUX...

260Configuring Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
 New line sequences
 Input new line sequences
For more information about these properties, see the IPMI 2.0 
specification.
Using the IPMI Remote Access Serial Interface
In the IPMI serial interface, the following modes are available:
IPMI terminal mode — Supports ASCII commands that are submitted 
from a serial terminal. The command set has a limited number of 
commands (including power control) and supports raw IPMI commands 
that are...