Some Supermicro motherboards are often recommended because they incorporate IPMI, providing the ability to perform remote management on a headless server.

 

My Intel board has a feature called Intel Management Engine Interface (IMEI) which, as I understand it, provides similar facilities to IPMI on the Supermicro boards.

 

I have enabled IMEI in the BIOS settings on my motherboard and can now use ^p during boot to access some IMEI configuration screens.  However, some of these screens tell me to configure the network interface but I cannot find any network settings screens.

 

Attempts to access the IMEI via the browser interface result in no response, and here I am stuck.

 

Does anyone here have any knowledge of IMEI and can guide me through this opaque topic?

 

Perhaps there is some similarity with IPMI configuration, and knowledge of that can be applied to IMEI?

 

Help!

It should have a two RJ45 connections.. one is typically dedicated to IMEI.  In essence you'll have two LAN connections made to one board.  One is eth0 while the other is for IMEI only.

 

That should paint the picture for you, if not, let me know if you're using a router and specifically which board you have.

 

No, there's just a single physical ethernet port.

 

The board is the DH55TC.  Network topology only has Gb switches between the two machines.  The only router is for Internet connection.

No experience with that line of Intel boards, or at least that one specifically.

Pressing F2 during POST is supposed to give you a management screen.

 

With Intel® ME being a main selection.

 

Intel® ME -> Intel® Active (or Standard) Management Technology Configuration -> Local Setup and Configuration

-> IPv4 TCP/IP Configuration

 

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