Connect to a CIMC of a UCS blade

Hi togheter,
we are having a UCS environment (firmware 1.4j) with 6 chassis. It is all configured and already operatable. It is configured that a service profile gets his managment ip pooled and the same belongs to the CIMC ip. All blades get their ip with no problems. But when I want to connect to a CIMC ip via browser (http://CIMC-ip) I get no answer. I am able to ping the CIMC ip and I am able to connect via ssh to the ip but there I have no idea about the username/password.
Has anyone an idea where the problem is located?
Kind regards
Philippe Bosle

Sorry for posting to this old thread, don't know what the posting rules are...we are running into a similar issue on two different UCS chassis setup.
The FI and mgmt pool are in the same subnet.
I can ssh into the Fab mgmt vip, FabA & FabB.  The KVM console to the blade works, but I can't access the blade CIMC via the browser.  How can I check my configuration and troubleshoot this issue?
Thanks in advance,
-- prasad

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