Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)

■PCI SMBus is accessible to the management controller. This allows PCI add-in cards that support manageability to log events to the System Event Log (SEL).

■BIOS logging of POST progress codes is added to the existing capability of logging only the BIOS POST errors

■Front panel functionality is enhanced

■For systems with the SATA or SCSI hot-swap controller (HSC), the HSC sensors are visible to server management software and HSC events are logged in the SEL.

Advanced Edition features

The Advanced Edition adds all the features listed above for the Professional Edition, plus the following features:

■BMC-resident SNMP support for out-of-band access using 3rd party applications such as Hewlett-Packard®OpenView®

■Embedded Web Server to access system health, view the SEL, and issue IPMI commands (For more information, see “Embedded Web Server” on page 50.)

■Embedded Command Line Interface (using a Telnet server running on the BMC) to allow direct terminal access to the BMC

■Alerting via Email

■Intel® Advanced Remote Server Control adds remote KVM functionality

■High-speed access to a dedicated NIC for the BMC on the Advanced Edition module

The Intel Advanced Remote Server Control, email alerting, embedded CLI, embedded web, BMC-resident SNMP agent, SOL, and other firmware-resident features are available Out-of-Band (OOB). This means that these features are available even when the Operating System is not running or the AC power is off.

Updating the BMC firmware

You should update the BMC firmware when Gateway Customer Care instructs you to update it.

If Gateway Server Manager (GSM) software is installed, it must be

Important uninstalled prior to installing or upgrading an IMM module. For additional information, see “Installing an Intel Management Module (IMM)” on page 124.

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