A Principled Technologies setup guide 7A quick and easy guide to setting up the Dell PowerEdge C8000Installing BMC cablesYou can access the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) of a sled usingtwo modes of operation: Non-Central Independent Mode, in which you access BMC through adedicated NIC using the sled’s BMC management port Non-Central Consolidated Mode, in which you access BMC through ashared NIC using the PowerEdge C8000 server enclosure’s BMCmanagement port and Ethernet port.For our setup, we chose the Non-Central Consolidated Mode as this reduces thenumber of Ethernet cables required for system management. To use Non-CentralConsolidated Mode, a BMC management cable must be installed inside the sleds. Toinstall the BMC management cable, you must open the sled and remove the hard drivecarrier and tray. Figure 5 shows the BMC cable installed.Figure 5: BMC cable installation.