Smoothwall S14 Appliances - BMC

[Norphy]

I would post this in the Smoothwall forum, but I can't. It seems to have disabled new posts? Is this deliberate?

 

Anyway, we've just received four S14 appliances, an HA pair for both of our internet breakouts. These devices are based on a Cas-Well CAR-6010 chassis. They have a management port on the front of them and a section in the BIOS to set up a BMC, or an iDRAC/iLO if you want to talk Dell/HPE.

 

Has anyone managed to set up the BMC in one of these devices? I've tried but hit a brick wall; there's a section in the BIOS to enable it and give it an IP address (no default gateway though, oddly) but even from a server in the same network segment I can't access it. There is no manual for this device on the Cas-well website and the Smoothwall engineer setting them up hasn't set up the BMC on one of these things before. Does anyone know how/if it can be done? I want to monitor the hardware from my monitoring platform and doing it through the OS doesn't cut it.

 

Thanks,

 

Norphy

[ibpalle]

Here is the info we have

 

IPMI creds

https://www.supermicro.com/en/support/BMC_Unique_Password

 

 

***Configuring IPMI on Smoothwall***

Applies to S14 appliances

If it is a blue box S14, the username and password (which are needed further below) are found within the front faceure plate on the front of the Smoothwall. This will need to be unscrewed to view the credentials.

Boot the S14 appliance up, and hit the "DEL" key to enter the BIOS, once the BIOS has loaded, navigate across to IPMI & Enable BMC network config.

Confiure IP addressing as STATIC and enter the LAN IP of the Smoothwall (or a LAN IP of an interface that will be accessed for IPMI access). Enter the subnet and gateway for this interface (smoothwalls gateway) and then

reboot the box. At this point, (provided an ethernet cable is configured in the IPMI port (Dell call it: iDRAC and HP: iLO) and into the relevant switch on the LAN) you should be able to ping and then directly access the LAN IP of the Smoothwall via a web

browser. Then you should be prompted for credentials in the web browser to log into the IPMI settings dashboard.

***if configured in HA, these IPMI settings won't replicate so make sure to configure on each appliance***

the idea of IPMI is that it connects to completley different hardware, so if the main LAN switch goes pop you'd still be able to connect to the Smoothwall via the IPMI port

 

 

So for example IPMI port configured 172.16.0.20

LAN port is 192.168.50.1

 

 

tab or f11 if supermicro to get to bios_grub

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface

[Norphy]

These aren't SuperMicro devices, they're Cas-Well. I have a SuperMicro device which acts as our log collector, on which the BMC is working fine. Does the same apply to these Cas-Wells? Are they using SuperMicro motherboards?

[ibpalle]

Yes they are using Supermicro motherboards.

 

We also have this KB by the way:

 

https://kb.smoothwall.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002033090

Edited January 21, 2021 by ibpalle

[Norphy]

I'll give it a go. Thankyou