Is there a little setup display right on the box? Just asking because I have seen that on some boxes. Cheers, Boris. On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 12:15 AM, Keith Keller < kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2016-09-17, Alice Wonder <alice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Okay if it requires DHCP this might be out, I'm currently out of town > > watching my brothers (various disabilities) while parents are on much > > needed vacation. Don't have easy physical access to the router, would > > have to take out stuff in front of it. Was hoping crossover ethernet > > would work. > > It probably would, but you still need some way to assign an IP address > to the IPMI interface (it probably doesn't have one out of the box). > But from your laptop you can run a DHCP server which would then assign > an IP to the IPMI interface. > > The IPMI might self-assign if it can't find a DHCP server, but in my > memory (which might be faulty) it doesn't do this. > > If for some reason Java doesn't work from your browser, Supermicro also > distributes a Java GUI tool for interacting with Supermicro IPMI > interfaces. It also supports a subnet scanner, so you don't need to > know the IP that gets assigned. Look for IPMIview here: > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/IPMI.cfm > > It's not a great tool but it works well enough for console access. > > --keith > > -- > kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos