Things You Can Do To Get Lights Out Management to Work In 10.5
Posted by: Mark Morowczynski in OS X 10.5, tags: LOMYou’re a Mac Admin in the enterprise, so far off to a bad start
. One of the nice tools when it works is the Lights Out Management (LOM) that is built into the XServe. You can initially configure this when the OS is being installed but if you want to change settings it can be done by,
Go to /Applications/Server/Server Monitor
Then select Server, Configure Local Machine. Here you can set the IP address to use, the username to access it, and finally which physically Ethernet port to use. Ok now you want check your nice monitoring locally, so you click Add Server, enter in the IP address and username and password and…. nothing. It doesn’t work. You get “can’t connect to server”. Turns out, that is not what you enter when you are connecting to Server Monitor locally. You need enter 127.0.0.1 as the address and an account that is a member of the local admins group. How would you possibly know that? You wouldn’t just trial and error.
I want to monitor remotely how do I do that? First know you do not need to enter the IP address that you configured in Server Monitor on the NIC in System Preferences. If you leave the NIC set in System Preferences as using DHCP you’ll be able to still plug in directly for an issue when you can’t connect through ARD. Next you’ll launch Server Monitor and put in the IP Address and username/password you configured in the Server Monitor app.
Also interesting note, if you use the 10.6.3 Server Monitor tools with a 10.5.8 when you lose remote connectivity, a server alert email will be generated. I’ve filled this as a bug with Apple, they recommend to use the Server tools to be the same version of the server.
Firewall Ports- Apple tends to think that everything runs locally on the same subnet at times. In reality we know that’s not true.
623 -UDP
311- TCP
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