Chapter 9 IPMI
9.1 IPMI introduction
This product fully supports Intelligent Platform Management Interface
2.0(IPMI 2.0) specifications. It uses a
9.2Definitions
•BMC - (Baseboard Management Controller) This is the common abbre- viation for an IPMI Baseboard Management Controller
•IPMB – (Intelligent Platform Management Bus) Protocol defined for passing IPMI messages over a public I2C bus.
•IPMI - (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) A standardized system management interface. Please refer to the IPMI Specification for more detail.
•IPMIv2.0 – Specifically version 2.0 of IPMI
9.3IPMI function list
The following standard IPMI commands will be supported. The 5th col- umn (Mandatory / Optional) is the record to distinguish the command is mandatory or optional based on the definitions of Intel IPMI specification (Intelligent Platform Management Interface Specification v2.0, revision 1.0, Intel, HP, NEC and Dell).
Table 9.1: Supported IPMI commands
IPMI Device Global | NetFn | Cmd | Mandatory / |
Commands |
|
| Optional |
|
|
|
|
Get Device Id | App | 0x01 | M |
Cold Reset | App | 0x02 | O |
Get Self Test Results | App | 0x04 | M |
Manufacturing Test On | App | 0x05 | O |
Set ACPI Power State | App | 0x06 | O |
Get ACPI Power State | App | 0x07 | O |
Get Device GUID | App | 0x08 | O |
BMC Device and | NetFn | Cmd | Mandatory / |
Messaging Commands |
|
| Optional |
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