Intel SE7520JR2 5.3.18Event Filtering and Alerting, 5.3.18.1Platform Event Filtering (PEF)

Platform Management		Intel® Server Board SE7520JR2
	LAN Channel Capability	Options
	Privilege Levels	User, Operator, Administrator
	Authentication Types	None, Straight Password, MD5
	Number of LAN Alert Destinations	1
	Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)	Gratuitous ARP

5.3.18Event Filtering and Alerting

The mBMC implements most of the IPMI 1.5 alerting features. The following features are supported:

•PEF

•Alert over LAN

5.3.18.1Platform Event Filtering (PEF)

The mBMC monitors platform health and logs failure events into the SEL. The Platform Event Filtering (PEF) feature provides a configurable mechanism to allow events to trigger alert actions. PEF provides a flexible, general mechanism that enables the mBMC to perform selectable actions triggered by a configurable set of platform events. The mBMC supports the following IPMI PEF actions:

•Power-down

•Soft-shutdown (pulse ACPI power button signal)

•Power cycle

•Reset

•Diagnostic Interrupt

•Alert

In addition, the mBMC supports the following OEM actions:

•Fault LED action

•Identification LED action

•Device feedback (Generate specified transaction on peripheral SMBus, or change level of DEIO pins)

The power-down, soft-shutdown, power cycle and reset actions can be delayed by a specified number of 100ms up to the maximum PEF delay defined in the IPMI 1.5 specification.

The mBMC maintains an Event Filter table with 30 entries that are used to select which actions to perform and one fixed/read-only Alert Policy Table entry. No alert strings are supported.

Note: All Fault/Status LED and ID LED behaviors are driven off of PEF. PEF should not be disabled and the default entry configuration should not be modified or else those behaviors will be changed.

Each time the PEF module receives an event message, either externally or internally generated, it compares the event data against the entries in the Event Filter table. The mBMC scans all entries in the table and determines a set of actions to be performed according to the entries that were matched. Actions are then executed in order of priority. If there is a combination of power

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