HP BladeSystem Onboard Administrator User Guide - HP Business ...

2. Launch a web browser (or alternatively a Telnet or SSH session), and select the Onboard Administrator
Service IP address as displayed in the enclosure Insight Display on the Enclosure Info screen.
3. Using the administrative password attached to the active Onboard Administrator, log in to the Onboard
Administrator as Administrator.
4. During the First Time Setup Wizard, enable Device Bay EBIPA with a starting static IP address and
enable Interconnect Bay EBIPA with a different starting IP address. After running the First Time Setup
Wizard, you can modify the EBIPA settings at any time by selecting Enclosure Bay IP Addressing in the
Enclosure Settings list.
Clicking the Autofill button creates 16 sequential IP addresses for the device bays and eight sequential
IP addresses for the interconnect bays. The Subnet Mask, Gateway, Domain, DNS Servers, and NTP
Servers are also copied to each of the consecutive bays in the list. Alternatively, you can assign
individual IP addresses by manually entering the desired IP address in the EBIPA Address field for the
specific bay. The Subnet Mask, Gateway, DNS, Domain can be same or different for each bay.
Servers in the device bays automatically acquire the Device Bay EBIPA addresses within a minute, but
the interconnect switch modules must be manually restarted by clicking the Virtual Power button on each
Onboard Administrator Interconnect Module information page.
5. To verify that the server blade iLO addresses have been set according to the EBIPA starting IP address
and range, use the Onboard Administrator Device list.
When a server blade or interconnect module is inserted into a device bay that has EBIPA enabled, the
management port receives the specific static IP address from the Onboard Administrator if the device is
configured for DHCP. If the device is configured for static IP, then it must be manually reconfigured to DHCP
to change the EBIPA IP address.
The administrator sets an independent range for device bays and interconnect module bays using the
Onboard Administrator EBIPA setup wizard. The first address in a range is assigned to the first bay and then
consecutive bays through the range.
For example, if you set the server bay EBIPA range starting from 16.100.226.21 to 16.100.226.36, then
the iLO in Server bay #1 is assigned 16.100.226.21 and the iLO in Server bay #12 is assigned
16.100.226.32, and the interconnect bay EBIPA range to 16.200.139.51 to 16.200.139.58. If you set the
interconnect module port, then the interconnect bay #1 is set to 16.200.139.51 and the interconnect module
management port in Interconnect bay #7 is set to 16.200.139.57.
IMPORTANT: Do not use the 169.254.x.x range when configuring EBIPA assigned addresses as
Onboard Administrator uses the same range for linked local addresses.
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