1. Oracle ILOM Administrator's Guide for Configuration and Maintenance Firmware Release 5.1.x
  2. Setting Up a Management Connection to Oracle ILOM and Logging In
  3. Establishing a Management Connection to Oracle ILOM
  4. Choosing and Configuring a Management Connection to Oracle ILOM
  5. Host OS Interconnect Guidelines for Manual Configuration

Host OS Interconnect Guidelines for Manual Configuration

The following table provides general guidelines for configuring local network parameters for the host OS internal USB Ethernet connection point.

Note:

The internal USB Ethernet installed on the managed server is presented in the system as a traditional ethernet interface. When manually configuring the local interconnect point for the host OS, it might be necessary to use the host MAC address (hostmacaddress=) to determine the name assigned to the host OS local interconnect point.

Table 2-1 Host OS Interconnect Manual Configuration Guidelines

Operating System Manual Host OS Interconnect Guidelines

MS Windows or Linux-based operating system
  1. Ensure that the internal Ethernet-over-USB device is automatically discovered by operating system.
  2. Install the ilomconfig tool. This tool is included in the Oracle Hardware Management Pack software distribution.

    Note: As an alternative to using the ilomconfig tool, you can use OS networking commands to configure the internal Ethernet-over-USB connection point addresses.

  3. In the ilomconfig tool, do one of the following:
    • Manually set the connection point addresses for the internal Ethernet-over-USB interface:

      ilomconfig enable interconnect --spipaddress=x.x.x.x --netmask=x.x.x.x --hostipaddress=x.x.x.x

      -or-

    • Manually set the default connection point addresses for the internal Ethernet-over-USB interface:

      ilomconfig enable interconnect

Solaris
  1. Ensure that the internal Ethernet-over-USB device is automatically discovered by Oracle Solaris.
  2. In the ilomconfig tool, do one of the following:

    Note: The ilomconfig tool is part of Oracle Solaris, no installation is required.

    • Manually set the connection point addresses for the internal Ethernet-over-USB interface:

      ilomconfig enable interconnect --spipaddress=x.x.x.x --netmask=x.x.x.x --hostipaddress=x.x.x.x

      -or-

    • Manually set the default connection point addresses for the internal Ethernet-over-USB interface:

      ilomconfig enable interconnect