Dell PowerEdge 7250 - Manual (Page 3)

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Contents
1 Introduction
Supported System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
BMC Configuration and Management Tasks
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Configuring the BMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Managing the BMC
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Planning for Using Your System’s BMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Basic BMC Alerting Over a Shared LAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
IPMI Shell Over a Shared LAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
IPMI Shell Over the Serial Cable
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SOL Proxy Over a Shared LAN
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BMC Configuration and Management Tools
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Using the System Maintenance Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Using the BMC Management Utility
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Using Sever Administrator
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Other Dell Documents You Might Need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Obtaining Technical Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2 Configuring Your Managed System
BIOS Configuration
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Starting the System Setup Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Navigating Setup Utility Screens
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Using the System Setup Utility
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Configuring Your Managed System with the
System Maintenance Utility (SMU)
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User Configuration Subtask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
LAN Channel Configuration Subtask
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Serial Over LAN Configuration Subtask
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LAN Alert Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Configuring Your Managed System with Server Administrator . . . . . . . . 25
Configuring Your Managed System to Access its BMC
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