Sorry, I’m not very used with server stuff, if I buy an Intel CPU without an integrated GPU like most Xeon, then I wouldn’t have enough pcie lanes for a GPU because all is taken for nvme drives

Specifically, the motherboard ipmi is powered by aspeed ast2500

If I understood right, that chip will act as a 2d basic graphics card that’s enough to see what happens that day the server is unresponsive

I don’t plan to connect a monitor, it’s just that I’m scared if I break truenas and I can’t connect via ssh, then I could still see the local screen from the management Page on the browser

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    1 year ago

    I mean yeah probably, but you better hope to God that the motherboard has DHCP enabled by default. I don’t know why it wouldn’t, but I’ve seen some stupid configs in my life.

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      1 year ago

      Why it should need dhcp? You can configure bmc’s IP from the bios or from the system running ipmitool. I never use dhcp for the ipmi’s ip, it is better to use a static one since it is better to keep always the same one.