Dell PowerEdge 7250 User Manual

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Configuring Your Managed System

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Host IP Address

This edit box is for the logical or Internet address of the host. The IP address is required when

DHCP is disabled. The IP address is entered as a dotted notation, such as 192.168.0.2.

Subnet Mask

The edit box is for the host's subnet mask. The system uses this to decide if alert destinations are in

the local subnet or in another subnet relative to the client console. The Subnet Mask is entered as a

dotted notation, such as 255.255.0.0.

Default Gateway IP Address

This edit box is for the IP address of the router used when the BMC sends a message or an alert to

a system on a different subnet than the BMC is on. The IP address is entered as a dotted notation,

such as 192.168.0.2.

Default Gateway MAC Address

This edit box allows you to enter the MAC address of the default gateway router. The MAC address

is entered as a series of six pairs of hex digits separated by dashes, such as 00-01-62-d0-3e-66.

Alphabetic hex digits (a-f) can be entered in uppercase or lowercase. This edit box is disabled by

default and is only activated if the check box for

Automatically resolve Default Gateway MAC

address is not checked. If the edit box is cleared (no address is supplied), a message is displayed

asking that a valid address be entered.

Automatically Resolve Default Gateway MAC Address

This check box allows you to specify whether the BMC should automatically attempt to resolve the

MAC address of the default gateway router. This box is checked by default unless the MAC address

edit box appears to include a valid MAC address.
If this box is not checked, you must provide the MAC address in the

Default Gateway MAC

Address field.
When the Next button is clicked, the firmware attempts to resolve the gateway MAC address. If

the BMC cannot resolve the address, the screen is redisplayed with the box unchecked and you are

asked to provide the MAC address in the Default Gateway MAC Address field. If the screen is

redisplayed due to a MAC address resolution issue, any user data previously entered, other than the

MAC address information, remains in place.

Backup Gateway IP Address

This edit box allows you to enter the IP address of a backup gateway router. The IP address is

entered as a dotted notation, such as 192.168.0.2.