HW mgmt port for 9800-40 (BMC?)

[Gioacchino]

Sorry for the simple question,

if I want to see the messages at boot of the 9800-40, is there any BMC (aka for other vendors IPMI/iLO/iDRAC) interface available on the device?

Or just the classic console port where to connect the RS232-to-RJ45 or the newer USB/FTDI-to-RJ45?

I refer to this HW guide

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/9800/9800-40/installation-guide/b-wlc-ig-9800-40/overview.html

In the guide, both of the port 9 and 10

9	SP—RJ-45 10/100/1000 management Ethernet port
10	RP—RJ-45 10/100/1000 redundancy Ethernet port

of our current setup are already used for the HA, afaik.

Are they supposed to be used in a different way?

Thanks,

Gio

[MHM Cisco World]

You can use console 

Or use mgmt interface with gui.

MHM

[marce1000]

      - By definition (or hardware implementation) the initial boot messages will be confined to the console (port)  ; you don't have ILO-like solutions on the 9800 platforms  ; in theory terminal server infrastructure could be used to make console lines available on  a central 'console'  ... 

 M.

[balaji.bandi]

if I want to see the messages at boot of the 9800-40

Always use console for the boot up messages, Once WLC configured, you can re-direct the other logs to syslog server.

use installation guide :

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/9800/9800-L/installation-guide/b-wlc-ig-9800-L/Installing-the-Cisco-Catalyst-9800-L-Wireless-Controller.html