My SuperMicro server has 3 Ethernet ports that break down like this:
I never use the dedicated IPMI port while accessing IPMI capabilities perfectly well via LAN1 along with the installed OS. I use ipmitool
on Ubuntu to set up access to the console (IP address, ADMIN pass etc.). My question is if LAN1 give me access to the IPMI console, why even have that dedicated IPMI port? Is there a difference in how those ports allow me to access IPMI? Specificlly, my concern is that accessing IPMI via LAN1 is only feasable so long as the OS (Ubuntu in my case) is not frozen. Which obviouls would be a real issue considering that I only need IPMI if the system crashes. Can someone help me understand this?