Dell PowerEdge 7250 - Manual (Page 30)

28 BMC Management Utility
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Installing the BMC Management Utility
The BMC Management Utility is installed on a management station system in order to remotely
connect to the managed system’s BMC. See Figure 3-1.
Installation Prerequisites
Before using the BMC Management Utility, you must perform at least the basic BIOS and BMC
configuration tasks described in "Configuring Your Managed System."
In addition, to access the BMC using the IPMI serial feature, you must have a working connection
between the management station and the correct serial I/O port of the managed system’s BMC
using a null modem cable.
Figure 3-1. Installing on a Management Station
Supported Operating Systems
The management station must be running one of the following supported operating systems:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 AS
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 AS, ES, WS
• Microsoft Windows 2000
• Microsoft Windows XP
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions