Hi,
I have two UCS C220 M3 server in my environment, one is working swimmingly while the other are struggling with problems.
When we boot the problem's UCS, through console we can access the UCS BIOS & CIMC config utility. We're able to enter the IP address, NIC mode, NIC redundancy mode in CIMC config. But we cannot ping it from remote PC. I tried tons of troubleshooting stuff as below;
1. Change connection to other port available (MGMT & NIC2) - failed
2. Change to DHCP mode - failed
3. Change switch access port the UCS connected to - failed
4. Power cycle, restart - failed
5. Using my laptop connect to the switch port (verify switch/network condition) - no problem at all
This happens after we replace the motherboard since the last one is faulty (cannot boot up). One thing i noticed though, previously we can access the CIMC admin page even without booting the server as long as the power is up but now there's no status lighting from the NIC port when it's not boot up.
Does the problem lies on the NIC?
Thanks,
hidzwan