Users Guide

To set a static IP address:
# ipmitool lan set 1 ipsrc static
# ipmitool lan set 1 ipaddr <x.x.x.x>
You can also add the BMC IP address from the BIOS. For more information, see the BIOS manual at https://www.dell.com/
support.
DNS configuration
Use these commands to set and get domain name server (DNS)-related settings, for example hostname, domain setting, and
DNS server settings. BMC supports only three DNS server IP addresses. These IP addresses can be either IPv4 or IPv6.
To set DNS configuration details, use the DNS configuration command. The DNS configuration is buffered and applies only after
you set a DNS Restart—parameter #7.
Date and time
BIOS sets the date and time during boot up. Use the iseltime tool that is part of the ipmiutil package. Use the
ipmiutil command only on the local processor. For more information about the ipmiutil command, see ipmiutil package.
Install the ipmiutil package and use the iseltime command.
To override the date and time used in the system event log (SEL) log, use the following command:
root@dellemc-diag-os:~# ipmitool sel time get
08/01/2018 15:10:46
root@dellemc-diag-os:~# ipmitool sel time set
usage: sel time set "mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss"
root@dellemc-diag-os:~#
For ipmiutil/iseltime, download and install the binaries and documentation from https://sourceforge.net/. Also, various
Linux distributions have binary packages prebuilt and available for download.
For Fedora, to download the utilities, use https://pkgs.org/download/ipmiutil
SNMP and email alerts
Event filters
To set the platform event filters, use the raw command format. To configure an entry in the filter table:
# ipmitool raw 0x04 0x12 0x6 0x2 0xc0 0x1 0x2 0x2 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0x01 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0
0x0 0x0 0x0
Byte 3 (0x60) – event filter table cmd
Byte 4(0x2) – filter number
Byte 5(0xc0) – filter config(enable)
Byte 6(0x1) – action(alert)
Byte 7(0x2) – policy number
Byte 8(0x2) - event severity(information)
Byte 9(0xff) – slave address
Byte 10 (0xff) – channel number(any)
Byte 11(0xff) - sensor number(any)
Byte 12(0x01) – event trigger(threshold)
The entry 2 is changed after the command, as shown:
# ipmitool pef filter list
1 | enabled, configurable | Any | Any | None | OEM | Any | Alert,OEM-defined | 1
2 | enabled, pre-configured | Any | Any | Information | OEM | Any | Alert | 2
Configuration methods
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