How to Configure BMC Web Console for Intel® Server M20NTP Family

All new Intel® Server M20NTP Family needs a extra configuration on the BIOS to be able to access BMC Web Console. The process describes how to configure and enable BMC Web Access on Intel® Server M20NTP Family

Step 1 - Setup BMC console on North Pass:

1. Access BIOS setup
2. Go to >> Server Mgmt >> BMC Network Configuration
   
3. Configure the Network details, including IP address, Sub mask, and router IP Address, for example:
   
4. If the BMC user is not configured, go back to the last menu (Server Mgmt) and select the option BMC User Settings
   
5. Select Add User
   
6. Select Username and create a user (note: Cannot be used root)
   
7. Set the Password
8. After set the User and Password you should receive a screen as follows:
   
9. Set User access – Enable
   
10. After set the user access you should receive the following screen:
    
11. Set Channel No – 1 - (Manually key in number 1 on the keyboard, for channel set )
12. Set User Privilege Limit – Administrator
    
13. After the last step, make sure to press F10 (save and Exit)
14. Reboot server

Step 2 - Enable BMC Console using IPMI commands:

After the server is back online, execute the ipmi commands to enable the BMC Web Console: (IPMITool Download)

1. Make sure the command prompt is on an elevated level (administrator mode);
2. From the server North Pass the original commands:
   #ipmitool -I lanplus -H<IP Address of BMC Console> -U<account BMC User> -P<password BMC User> raw 6 0x40 1 0x42 4
   #ipmitool -I lanplus -H<IP Address of BMC Console> -U<account BMC User> -P<password BMC User> raw 0x32 0x6a 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x62 0x6f 0x74 0x68 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xbb 1 0 0 8 7 0 0 0 0
3. If the command above fails, from the server North Pass, please try omitting the parameters, and run the command as follows:#ipmitool raw 6 0x40 1 0x42 4
   #ipmitool raw 0x32 0x6a 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x62 0x6f 0x74 0x68 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0xbb 1 0 0 8 7 0 0 0 0

   The results should be with no error message:
   

4. If the command still fails, from the server North Pass, run the following command and send back the output for support analysis: Intel Support
   #ipmitool -vv raw 6 0x40 1 0x42 4