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1. Identify and verify the devices

Documentation

Documentation/ips.md and ansible/inventory assign these planned addresses. iDRAC is the BMC; DPU Host 5 is the Ubuntu host. Those are different machines from a login point of view, on the same chassis.

Role Name in docs Planned address
DH5 iDRAC (BMC) DH5 iDRAC 172.22.2.5
DPU Host 5 (Ubuntu) DPU Host 5 / dh5 172.22.1.5
BlueField-3 Nvidia BF3 / bf3 172.22.3.5
BlueField-3 BMC Nvidia BF3 bmc / bf3bmc 172.22.4.5

Inventory lists dh5 at 172.22.1.5 and bf3 at 172.22.3.5. There is no dh5bmc entry for 172.22.2.5.

The cabling map labels one chassis SERVER DPU HOST ?, dh5, Dell R760xa, and Nvidia BlueField3, with iDRAC 172.22.2.5. hardware/dh5/README.md is a stub (Dell R760ax, β€œBlue Filed 3”) and has no PCI or rshim notes. The working rshim example in the repository is for BlueField-2 on dh2.

Live identity

The unlabeled rack name and DPU Host 5 are the same machine.

  • iDRAC recaptured 2026-09-29: PowerEdge R760xa, service tag 7GDGN34, DNS name idrac-7GDGN34, iDRAC MAC a8:3c:a5:38:19:f8, IPv4 172.22.2.5, power ON.
  • Recaptured 2026-09-29 on [email protected]: hostname = dh5.
  • Host OS: Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS, kernel 6.8.0-139-generic.
  • Host management: eno12399np0 172.22.1.5/16.
  • Host DOCA: 3.5.0098; OFED 26.07-0.7.7.
  • Recaptured 2026-09-29: BF3 Ubuntu OS [email protected] (hostname localhost.localdomain). BF3 BMC [email protected] (hostname dpu-bmc). Planned 172.22.3.5 / 172.22.4.5 are unused. Dell iDRAC stays 172.22.2.5.

How to connect

Credentials that already work on the other Dell lab servers work for iDRAC root and host root. The BF3 ubuntu password is in 1Password.

Target Command Password
Dell host (Ubuntu) ssh [email protected] Dell host root
Dell iDRAC (BMC) ssh [email protected] / https://172.22.2.5/ same Dell root
BlueField-3 OS (OOB) ssh [email protected] 1Password BF3 ubuntu
BlueField-3 BMC ssh [email protected] / https://172.22.222.2/ BMC root (prompt root@dpu-bmc)
BlueField-3 (rshim, from dh5) ssh [email protected] same BF3 ubuntu
  1. Connect to the lab VPN.
  2. Host: ssh [email protected]. This is the live host address now; the earlier temporary 172.22.222.14 is gone.
  3. iDRAC when the host is down: ssh [email protected], racadm getsysinfo for model / tag / power; Virtual Console logs into dh5 as root.
  4. BlueField-3 OS: ssh [email protected] (OOB) or, from dh5, ssh [email protected] (rshim). Both return hostname localhost.localdomain. Planned 172.22.3.5 is not assigned yet; live OS is unknown-pool 172.22.222.3.
  5. BlueField-3 BMC: ssh [email protected] β†’ prompt root@dpu-bmc. Same unknown pool as the OS. Planned 172.22.4.5 does not answer. This is not Dell iDRAC (172.22.2.5).

BlueField-3 on the host

lspci on dh5:

PCI Function
0d:00.0 BlueField-3 integrated ConnectX-7
0d:00.1 BlueField-3 integrated ConnectX-7
0d:00.2 BlueField-3 SoC Management Interface

Host-side data interfaces recaptured 2026-09-29 on root@dh5: enp13s0f0np0 UP 172.16.3.65/24, enp13s0f1np1 UP 172.16.3.66/24. Same addresses as the earlier capture.

After the rshim service is running, /dev/rshim0/misc reports BlueField-3 (Rev 1) at pcie-0000:0d:00.2, BF_MODE DPU mode. Recaptured 2026-09-29.

From dh5 the same day: rshim ping 192.168.100.2 2/2; rshim SSH [email protected] hostname β†’ localhost.localdomain (same name as OOB); OOB ping 172.22.222.3 2/2.

BF3 OOB interface: oob_net0 MAC 9c:63:c0:e4:b7:f4 β†’ 172.22.222.3.

Recaptured 2026-09-29 on [email protected]: hostname localhost.localdomain, Ubuntu 24.04.5, /etc/mlnx-release bf-bundle-3.5.0-89_26.07_ubuntu-24.04_64k_prod.

Live reachability (2026-09-29, VPN 172.22.100.20)

Address Role ICMP TCP 22
172.22.1.5 dh5 host up open
172.22.2.5 iDRAC up open
172.22.222.3 BF3 OS (OOB) up open
172.22.222.2 BF3 BMC up open
172.22.3.5 planned BF3 OS down β€”
172.22.4.5 planned BF3 BMC down β€”
172.22.222.14 old host IP down β€”

Documentation compared with the lab

Documentation Lab
Planned host 172.22.1.5 Live on 172.22.1.5 (earlier temporary 172.22.222.14 is gone)
Planned BF3 172.22.3.5 Not assigned; DPU OS is live on OOB 172.22.222.3 (unknown pool)
Host OS Ubuntu 22.04 Host is Ubuntu 24.04.5
R760 / R760ax / R760xa R760xa
Map β€œServer DPU Host ?” Same chassis as dh5
BF3 inventory user root @ 172.22.3.5 Working login is [email protected]
dh5bmc in inventory Missing
DHCP reservations for dh5 / BF3 Missing in the repository dhcpd.conf
Map host IP 172.22.1.5 Not drawn. The DH5 chassis on the map is labeled 172.22.1.4, which ips.md assigns to DPU Host 4
BF3 BMC 172.22.4.5 Not assigned. Live BMC is [email protected], hostname dpu-bmc. BMC MAC unknown

iDRAC MAC: a8:3c:a5:38:19:f8.

Host NICs from iDRAC: D4:04:E6:D8:0C:70, D4:04:E6:D8:0C:71, C4:CB:E1:CD:56:C8, C4:CB:E1:CD:56:C9.