Have a 5220 netbackup appliance which acts as master and media server.
Recently upgraded to latest software, 2.6.1.1. Also, purchased additional memory and another storage shelf, which was successfully installed.
Running along just fine, when i get a call from one of our "Networking Guys', tracing packets for some other problems, but see an awful lot of traffic for a certain MAC addr. And it's one - off from what's listed as the main interface for my 5220. Not mine, I say.
Well, he assigned the mac address a name and IP number and now, when I https to it, VOILA, IPMI interface for my 5220.
How did this happen? I looked at the back, and there is an ethernet-looking connection labelled IPMI, but there's no cable in it.
Not causing any trouble, but I would like to know if this is something new, or somethings that's been broadcasting a while and someone just noticed it. Besides the "solving the mystery" aspect, I do have another appliance which I might like to get IPMI going on, and would really like to know what happened here.