![]() ![]() Go through the setup for your server’s particular BMC and give it an IP address. In my case, it means I can ruin the server setup and fix it without having to get off the couch. This is super useful when tooling around with stuff we don’t understand (hi!) - because it’s our get out of jail free card when things go wrong. Put simply, this allows us to have an ‘always on’ connection to manage our server, regardless of what the installed operating system is doing (even if it’s shut down!). This is also called the iDRAC (integrated Dell Remote Access Controller!) or IPMI ( Intelligent Platform Management Interface - phew!) connection for branding reasons, or “out-of-band” controller, for the simple reason that the Rules of Computing require us to have at least 4 conflicting names for the same thing. One of them will be to the BMC (baseboard management controller), a dedicated RJ45 (ethernet plug!) connecting to its own little computer on board. ![]() Typically, when we have a server - it will tend to have a bunch of NICs (which is how server-dweebs refer to network ports/interfaces). It’s not exhaustive by any means - just a taster! Part 1: The server itself I’m going to break this post into chunks covering the server itself, the Ubuntu operating system and the EVE-NG software itself. ![]() the IPv4 address of our router, the size of the subnet etc) A good understanding of our LAN environment (i.e.An SSH client (terminal on a Mac/Unix, PuTTY on Windows etc).If that’s still a problem, let me know and I’ll write up a more clear guide! An EVE-NG install on a server (a bare metal install).If not, you can follow along with my garbled process below!ĭISCLAIMER: I am a plum duff and don’t really understand everything about everything, so please use this as a guide, ask questions and try stuff in a safe environment. You know how to stick a BGP peering on a thing or make a devastating broadcast storm - but do you know enough about Linux networking to save the president set up EVE-NG in your own LAN and maybe build a simple lab topology? Well. You’re a network engineer, or at least a wannabe one. However, when you start to run some more demanding labs (like the JNCIE/CCIE labs) - you might want to start running it on a server of your own (or that you rent from a bare-metal server provider in the cloud). ![]() EVE-NG is a really neat way to virtualise networking stuff - routers, switches, load balancers etc. ![]()
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