Adder Technology Switch manual IPMI Settings, , IPMI disabled, BMC address, IPMI over LAN

IPMI Settings

By using the SmartView World, IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) facilities, you have an additional way to power on or off the system or to perform a hard reset. Furthermore, it provides the possibility to show an event log of the host system and the status of some system sensors (i.e. temperature). If your host system supports IPMI, you can access it by one of the following ways:

•IPMI over Serial (IPMI V1.5 is required)

•IPMI over LAN (IPMI V1.5 is required)

IPMI disabled

Disables IPMI on the SmartView World. This means that Status via IPMI and Event Log via IPMI

are not available and the power on/off and reset functions don’t use IPMI rather than the ATX and the reset cable connected from the SmartView World to the motherboard.

BMC address

The hexadecimal Baseboard Management Controller address, which is needed for all communication types to the IPMI-interface. Usually you can find this address in the BIOS of the host system. The default and common value for this address is 20.

IPMI over LAN

The prerequisite for IPMI over LAN is a host system with IPMI V1.5 and a network adapter with a sideband connection to the BMC (mostly on board). In the IPMI Settings, you must enter the IP-address of this host system and the correct password for the LAN connection. You can also access other IPMI systems when you enter their IP address.

Power Control

If IPMI is enabled, these functions are performed over IPMI requests. These requests may take a few seconds.

If IPMI is disabled, the power control functions (power on, power off, reset) are performed over the internal or external power control options.

Event Log via IPMI

The Event Log via IPMI accesses the SEL (System Event Log) repository and reads every entry sequentially. The first time you use this function after starting the SmartView World the complete repository has to be read, what may take 1 or 2 minutes.

When all entries have been read, the SmartView World displays the entries with their time, sensor and description in accordance with the filter settings. You have the choice between several pre-settings (i.e. last day, last week) or an exact declaration of the start and the end date.

Once you changed the filter settings, click on ‘Update’ in order to update the shown entries. If the checkbox ‘Get sensor names’ is checked all sensor IDs will be shown with their respective names.

The time that is shown in the log entries is the SEL time, which means that this time is independent to the system time. The actual SEL time is shown at the top of the log table. With the button ‘Clear Event Log’ you can delete all entries in the SEL repository.

Status via IPMI

The Status via IPMI function shows the current values and the min/max- thresholds of all fans, temperatures and voltages existing in the host system. You can change the thresholds by editing the according values and pressing ’Apply’.

The first time you call this page, it may take up to two minutes until the sensor data will be shown.

Note: If IPMI is disabled, Status via IPMI and System Log via IPMI are not available (the corresponding menu options are not visible).

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