Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC VEP4600 BMC User Guide
- About this guide
- New in this release
- Hardware and software support
- BMC web GUI
- Configuration methods
- Current released firmware
- Remote power cycle system
- Access system health sensors
- Access FRU data
- ipmiutil package
- Dell EMC support
● Response data byte 3-70 for REMOTE (68 bytes) or 3-7 for LOCAL (5 bytes)—ENABLED REMOTE
○
NOTE: These request data bytes are required only when you enable either the local or remote system log.
64bytes : Hostname (ASCII)
Remote syslog server
4bytes : port number
To set the remote server ip address to 10.0.124.22 and port to 770:
ipmitool -I lanplus -H xx.xx.xx.xx -U xxx -P xxx raw 0x32 0x68 0x00
0x02 0x31 0x30 0x2e 0x30 0x2e 0x31 0x32 0x34 0x2e 0x32 0x32 0x00
0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
0x02 0x03 0x00 0x00
ENABLED LOCAL
4bytes : Size (LSB first)
size of each file to rotate (file size is from 3 to 65535 KB)
1bytes : Rotate
Number of back-up files after logrotate (maximum 1 file)
To set the file size to 100 bytes, use the IPMI command:
ipmitool -I lanplus -H xx.xx.xx.xx -U xxx -P xxx raw 0x32 0x68 0x00
0x01 0x64 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01
Default configuration restore
Use configuration restore to start the configuration from scratch. For example, use configuration restore to remove the old
configuration and start over if you reinstall the system or move the system to a new location.
Restore default configuration command
● NetFn—0x32
● Command—0x66
● Response byte 1—Completion code
Set backup configuration flag
To set the backup flags for the manage BMC confirguration command, use the set backup configuration flag
command.
●
NetFN—0x32
● Command—0xF3
● Request data byte 1:2—Byte 1 is the value specifies to back up a configuration feature or not.
○ [7]—Reserved
○ [6]—1b: Backup SNMP. 0b: Do not backup the simple network management protocol (SNMP)
○ [5]—1b: Backup SYSLOC. 0b: Do not backup SYSLOG
○ [4]—1b: Backup KVM. 0b: Do not backup keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM)
○ [3]—1b: Backup NTP. 0b: Do not backup network time protocol (NTP)
○ [2]—1b: Backup IPMI. 0b: Do not backup IPMI
○ [1]—1b: Backup NETWORK And SERVICES. 0b: Do not backup NETWORK And SERVICES
○ [0]—1b: Backup AUTHENTICATION. 0b: Do not backup AUTHENTICATION
NOTE: Reserved bits may be updated further based on the requirement.
● Response data byte 1—Completion code
○ 0x83—Authentication feature is not enabled
○ 0x84—NTP feature is not enabled
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Configuration methods