PSA: Menus not staying open in Supermicro IPMI? Here’s how to fix it:

I’ve noticed this a couple times in the last week – I had an iKVM window open on my Supermicro host, trying to control the ESXi DCUI, and the menu wouldn’t stay open. It’s very frustrating.

I don’t have a physical monitor hooked up to any of my hosts, so this is a pretty important thing to have working in the event I need to change a setting only available on the “physical” host’s menu.

So, in case you landed on this page because you’re trying to figure out how to fix the same issue, here’s what I discovered:

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