Hi All,
I am trying to install IBM Director in our test Server 2003 environement.
I want a seperate LAN just for Director, and I’m using a spare 8 port router with DHCP turned on for the subnet 192.168.21.X.
All servers will use BMC connections as we don’t have RSA-II adapters.
After many fruitless hours trying to get the “Management port” connected, I called IBM support who told me that the BMC shares the first NIC. So I plugged the first NIC of the management server into the router, and gave it a static address outside the DHCP range.
Interestingly, the BIOS BMC is set to DHCP, and it got a DIFFERENT DHCP address from the static addrss I assigned in Windows, so I set it to the same IP as I assigned the NIC in Windows.
I installed a Level 2 agent on another PC that I can’t reboot at the moment to look in the BIOS, after connecting the first NIC to the new “management” LAN.
When I login to the server using the new LAN and the static IP I assigned it, the managed Agent 2 system shows up, but I can’t do anything to it.
The Management Server shows up, but lists the “production” IP address from another submet that I told it NOT to access during the installation, and reports the wrong OS (XP instead of Server 2003).
Any help / tips / advice ??
