Intel® Server Board Set SE8500HW4

Server Management

that the FRB3 timer halt signal has become de-asserted after having previously been asserted by the BIOS to disable the FRB3 timer.

5.6Remote Management and External Interfaces to the BMC

Several external BMC interfaces are available to enable a variety of options for remote server management. Additional detail on most of these interfaces can be obtained from the IPMI 2.0 Specification. Figure 9 provides an overview of the interfaces and the chapters that follow describe platform-specific implementation.

 

 

Local Host

 

 

 

PCI

KCS/LPC

 

 

 

 

Interface

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PCI

 

PCI SMBus

 

EMP

COM

 

 

 

 

 

 

PCI Slots

 

BMC

 

 

Modem

 

Virtual

 

i2c

 

 

 

 

LAN

RS 485

ICMB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IPMB

 

 

 

 

HSC

Aux

 

 

Ethernet

 

Connector

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCSI Bus

 

 

 

 

Figure 9. External Interfaces to the BMC

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