CIMC access without IP address configuration. and without rebooting.

[neobrutal]

Dear all.

I'm Yoong Huh.

I've question for CIMC access.

In my customer site, there is a UCSC-M240 server.

I need to access to CIMC , there is no ip configuration in CIMC server (maybe it can be default setting)

I know that, i should confugration  ip address of CIMC for Rebooting UCS server, but it cannot.

Because of customers wants.

How can i access to CIMC and get techsupport log file without CIMC IP address configuration?

Is there any way to configure the IP address on procesing server?

Regards.

Yoong Huh.

[Saurabh Kothari]

Hey Yoong,

thanks for your query.

You need to access the CIMC configuration utility to set up CIMC IP/login credentials for the very first time by pressing F8 at server boot using KVM.

If no IP then there's no connectivity with CIMC GUI/CLI.

Default login credentials are pre-setup but no IP address.

Regards,

Saurabh

[neobrutal]

Hi Saurabh.

Thanks for your reply.

How about DHCP configuration?

I know that the CIMC  default IP configuration is DHCP.

So, How about that if i configure the DHCP server on a Switch device , and connect to CIMC Mgt. port.

I think CIMC can recieve the IP address from DHCP server switch.

Regards.

Yoong Huh.

[Saurabh Kothari · Accepted solution]

Yoong,

if the CIMC default config is set to DHCP then probably it is waiting for the DHCP server switch to assign an IP to it.

please move forward.

Regards,

Saurabh

[neobrutal]

Hi saukotha.

I checked the DHCP in my lab, so it work.

If the CIMC IP default config is correctly DHCP, it can be positive to me and my customer .

Regards and Thanks.

Yoong Huh.

[Saurabh Kothari]

Thanks Yoong, happy to help :)