Q: How do I know if IPMI is working?
A: Most motherboards have an IPMI heartbeat LED that blinks slowly after IPMI has initialized. Other than that, the interface should respond to pings, and will have HTTP and HTTPS web interfaces running on ports 80 and 443 by default.
If you receive any errors during POST regarding IPMI initialization failure, contact Support immediately.
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