"ignore booting" and failover?

[Tina Siegenthaler]

Am 24.10.2008 um 15:27 schrieb Drew Weaver:

> Have you ever used a Server before?
>
> A BMC is a baseboard management controller it is used to perform  
> system management tasks out of band such as IPMI, etc.
>
> While a server with a BMC is booting up it will say 'Press CTRL- 
> [something]' to configure the baseboard management controller.
>
> Simply assign a fake static IP to it so it will stop trying to get a  
> IP from DHCP.
>
> By default it comes with a 192.168.x.x IP assigned to it from Dell  
> so someone there (you or one of your "colleagues") must have told it  
> to use DHCP.
>
> I'm not sure why it's a "#"!?** Dell server" when its doing exactly  
> what you told it to do.
>
> -Drew



Sorry, I didn't know that, I'm not responsible for the Windows servers  
here, and I don't know much about them (and Windows in general), I'm  
doing mostly (well, call that "only") Mac support and server  
administration. I guess my colleague configured it like this, but it  
must have happened inadvertently, since he didn't know about it  
either. The other Dell server we have was configured the same way  
(AFAIK), but isn't doing this. I'll tell my colleague to have a look  
at that. Thanks for the hint, though, and sorry for the rant, it was  
just getting on my nerves...

Nevertheless, I'd like to know why just one of the peers is ignoring  
the DISCOVERS?


Tina