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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