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Jeff Woolslayer
Former Employee
Jan 22, 2019

Windows Admin Center Preview 1812 is now available!

In this release of Windows Admin Center Preview, we've added power configuration to server settings, BMC info (for IPMI-compatible BMCs), Dark UI theme (preview, work in progress), and the ability to manage your connection list and extensions with PowerShell.

 

Read the official announcement here: https://aka.ms/wac1812

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  • Deleted's avatar
    Deleted
    Mar 16, 2019

    Jeff Woolslayer 

    Just a quick question, is ther a reason why certain characters cannot be typed when using the rdp in browser? characters like : and - just aren't typed in and ignored leaving me to have to use the osk for them. not a huge deal but just wondering. Also, Is there any way to keep connections persistent? Sometimes when i open wac from a new place i lose all of my connections, and just today i had them all disappear from a pc i use frequently for wac

  • MarcVDH's avatar
    MarcVDH
    Iron Contributor
    Jan 23, 2019

    Hello,

    Can you tell me how the IPMI/BMC should show up ?

    I have HP physical servers where IPMI is functional (I tested this with IPMIPing), the iLOs are fully configured and working as desired but in WAC on the overview tab it doesn't show up.

    The client from where I access WAC and the server running WAC can do the IPMIPing successfully.

     

    Thanks in advance for your help

    • daniel-lee's avatar
      daniel-lee
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      Jan 23, 2019

      Hi Marc!

      Can you run the following PS script on the HP server and let me know what results you get? Thanks!

       

      $bmcInfo = Get-PcsvDevice
      $result = New-Object -TypeName PSObject
      $result | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "Ip" $bmcInfo.IPv4Address
      $result | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name "Serial" $bmcInfo.SerialNumber
      $result
      • MarcVDH's avatar
        MarcVDH
        Iron Contributor
        Jan 30, 2019

        Hello Daniel,

        Sorry to bother you with that but I am suely missing something but I can't get it to work.

        Whatever I try with get-pcsvdevice, I have always the same error.

        The error is : 

        Get-PcsvDevice : The operation failed. The device returned the following RMCP+ status code: 9.
        At line:1 char:1
        + Get-PcsvDevice -TargetAddress 10.248.24.36 -Credential $mycred -Managemen ...
        + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (10.248.24.36:root/Microsoft/...MSFT_PCSVDevice) [Get-PcsvDevice], CimExce
        ption
        + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MI RESULT 1,Get-PcsvDevice

         

        I have found a tool here http://ipmiutil.sourceforge.net/  and when I use it, it works !

        When I try ipmiutil I get :

        PS C:\Users\ext553\Downloads\ipmiutil-3.1.3-win64> .\ipmiutil.exe health -N 10.248.24.36 -U xxxxxxxxx -P xxxxxxxxxx
        ipmiutil health ver 3.13
        Connecting to node  10.248.24.36
        ipmilan_open_session error, rv = -15
        ipmilan BMC only supports lan v2
        Opening lanplus connection to node 10.248.24.36 ...
        BMC manufacturer  = 00000b (HP), product = 2000 (Proliant ML/DL)
        BMC version       = 2.61, IPMI v2.0
        IPMI driver type  = 9        (lan2)
        Selftest status   = 0055     (OK)
        Chassis Status    = 21 00 40 00 (on, see below)
                chassis_power       = on
                pwr_restore_policy  = last_state
                chassis_intrusion   = inactive
                front_panel_lockout = inactive
                drive_fault         = false
                cooling_fan_fault   = false
        Power On Hours    = 41353 hours (1723 days)
        BMC LAN Channels  = 2
        Chan 2 AuthTypes  =
        ipmiutil health, completed successfully

         

        So there should be no problem with the server itself but with the cmdlet, don't you think ?

         

        Thanks in advance for your help

        Marc

         

         

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