Chapter 3: Managing and Maintaining Your Server

■SDR/SEL timestamp clock

■Board set FRU information interface

■Fault resilient booting

■System management watchdog timer

■Front panel system diagnostic-interrupt handling

■Platform Management Interruption (PMI) / System Diagnostic Interrupt (SDI) status monitor

■Event receiver

■System interface to the IPMB (via system interface ports)

■IPMI Management Controller Initialization Agent (MCIA)

■Emergency Management Port (EMP) interface

■Serial/modem and LAN alerting

In this server, the BMC is also the chassis bridge controller, providing integrated ICMB support. ICMB transports server management information between chassis in a cluster configuration that can contain multiple servers and peripherals.

Intel® Management Module (IMM) features

Professional Edition features

The Professional Edition includes the following features:

■All the features provided by the mBMC

■Support for IPMI v2.0 specification

■Additional sensors

■Temperature-based fan speed control by the BMC

■Additional FRU records are visible to the management controller and management software applications (for example, Power Supply, DIMM, and hot-swap controller FRU’s)

■The size of the System Event Log (SEL) is increased from 92 entries to 3276 entries

■The number of BMC users is increased from one anonymous user to four users (each with configurable user names and passwords on each LAN or Serial channel)

■The IPMI 2.0 serial features are supported. The serial port can be used for console redirection, Terminal-mode CLI, dial paging, Serial Over LAN (SOL), and other management functions.

■The Intelligent Chassis Management Bus (ICMB) is supported

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