MPCMM0002 CMM—Guidelines for Third Party Chassis Vendors

13.0Guidelines for Third Party Chassis Vendors

This chapter describes some of the high level design of the Intel NetStructure® MPCMM0002 Chassis Management Module to help third party chassis vendors better understand how to incorporate the CMM into their chassis.

Note: The chapter excludes any low level design details of the individual components of the Chassis Management Module or the CMM firmware. This chapter also does not explain how to configure the CMM to work in a third party chassis. That information is contained in the Intel NetStructure® MPCMM0001 Chassis Management Module and Intel NetStructure® MPCMM0002 CMM Software Technical Product Specification for version 6.1.

13.1High Level Design

At a very high level, the CMM can be thought of as a black box, which has 42 IPMB buses to allow a variety of bus topologies. The GPIO signals are for user-defined purposes, and the dedicated I/O signals are used for certain dedicated functionality explained later.

Figure 32 illustrates this high level CMM design.

Figure 32. High Level CMM Design

Dedicated I/O

Signals

CMM

10 GPIOs

 

 

 

42 IPMB Buses

The figure below provides next level of details on how these pins are wired to different components on the CMM hardware.

Intel NetStructure® MPCMM0002 Chassis Management Module

 

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