Fujitsu IRMC S2/S3 manual Preface

1 Preface

Modern server systems are becoming increasingly complex. The requirements with respect to the management of such systems are growing accordingly.

In response to this development, a number of vendors founded the “Intelligent Platform Management Interface” (IPMI) initiative with the objective of defining a standardized, abstract, message-based interface between the central system controller (Baseboard Management Controller - BMC) and intelligent hardware for platform management. For further details on IPMI, please refer to section "IPMI - technical background" on page 21.

The integrated Remote Management Controllers iRMC S2 and iRMC S3 (in the following iRMC S2/S3 for short) each represent a BMC with integrated LAN connection and extended functionality. In this way, the iRMC S2/S3 offers comprehensive control over PRIMERGY servers, irrespective of the system status. In particular, the iRMC S2/S3 allows for out-of-band management (Lights Out Management, LOM) of PRIMERGY servers. Out-of-band management uses of a dedicated management channel that enables a system administrator to monitor and manage servers via remote control regardless of whether the server is powered on.

Figure 1: iRMC S2 on the system board of a PRIMERGY server

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