The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is open standard technology for monitoring the server's hardware sensors. IPMI runs directly on the baseboard management controller (BMC). It is, therefore, necessary to create an IPMI profile with a username, password, and the desired level of access, which could be read-only or read/write, and assign the IPMI profile to the blade server for direct management using IPMI commands.
Perform the following steps to configure the IPMI profile:
- Log in to UCS Manager.
- Click to expand the Servers tab in the navigation pane.
- Click on the Policies tab and expand the root tab.
- Right-click on IPMI Access Profiles and on the pop-up menu that appears, click on Create IPMI Access Profile:
- Assign a Name and a short Description to the IPMI access profile, and select the Enable option for the IPMI Over LAN config. Click on the + sign to create the IPMI users under the IPMI Users section:
