Owners Manual

Hardware and software support
For the most current BMC update information, see the S5200-ON Series Release Notes.
For more information about the intelligent platform management interface (IPMI), see the IPMI resources that is hosted by Intel at https://
www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/servers/ipmi/ipmi-technical-resources.html.
Required drivers
In Linux, the baseboard management controller (BMC) uses the ipmitool open-source tool during testing. To congure or get data from
the BMC, ipmitool sends ipmi commands to the BMC. You must have the IPMI driver installed to use ipmitool.
To access ipmitools, go to https://sourceforge.net, search for ipmitools, then select the See Project button.
NOTE: Although there are newer versions available, the ipmitool and driver versions used during testing the BMC are:
• Linux version: 4.9.30
• ipmitool version: 1.8.18
• ipmi driver that the ipmitool uses is built with kernel 4.9.30.
BMC access
Access BMC through the network interface from a remote machine. Use ipmitool for host and remote access.
• LAN interface—ipmitool is the standard tool to access BMC over the network. A dummy static IP address is preprogrammed in the
BMC. You can change this dummy static IP address of the network interface using ipmitool from the microprocessor console:
– # ipmitool lan set 1 ipaddr <x.x.x.x>
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