Emerson ATCA-7350 manual Introduction, 1.1Overview, 1.2Feature Description

Introduction

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1.1Overview

The ATCA-7350 provides an intelligent hardware management system as defined in the AdvancedTCA Base Specification (PICMG 3.0; AMC.0). This system implements an Intelligent Peripheral Management Controller (IPMC) based on the proprietary H8S reference design from American Megatrends Inc.

The ATCA-7350 IPMC supports all standard Intelligent Peripheral Management Interface (IPMI) commands and provides hardware interfaces for other system managements features such as hot-swap control, LED control, power control and temperature and voltage monitoring. The IPMC also supports a Keyboard Controller Style (KCS) based host interface for payload-to-IPMI communication.

In addition, the following features are included:

Table 1-1 Features

Feature	Further Details...
Supported for fault tolerant field upgrade	IPMC Firmware Upgrade on page 12
Support for field updates of firmware via the payload
processor interface
Serial over LAN (SOL)	Serial over LAN on page 13
Sensor management including, among others, power	Sensors on page 13
good and boot bank supervision sensor
FRU inventory with MAC address record	MAC Address Record on page 13
Asynchronous event notification	Asynchronous Event Notification on page 13
Graceful shutdown timeout	Graceful Shutdown Timeout on page 13
Local system event log (SEL)	Local System Event Log on page 14
External watchdog	External Watchdog on page 14
BIOS boot configuration via IPMI	Boot Configuration Parameters on page 14
	Chassis Device Commands on page 18

1.2Feature Description

Besides its basic functions, the ATCA-7350 provides the features described in this section.

1.2.1HPM.1 Specific Firmware Upgrades

ATCA-7350 Control via IPMI Programmer’s Reference (6806800H29E) 11