Chapter 2. Remote Management Module overview
This section gives you an overview of the Remote Management Module and highlights significant benefits of its features.
The Remote Management Module is a 1.23-inch x 2.30-inch printed circuit board. When installed onto the Remote Management Module connector on Lenovo server boards, it provides an increased level of manageability over the basic server management available to the server board. It works as an integrated solution on your server system.
Remote Management Module features
The Remote Management Module add-on card offers convenient, remote KVM access and control via LAN or Internet. It captures, digitizes, and compresses video and transmits it with keyboard and mouse signals to and from a remote computer. Remote access and control software runs in the integrated Baseboard Management Controller, utilizing expanded capabilities provided by the Remote Management Module hardware.
Figure 1. Remote Management Module
In addition, the Remote Management Module add-on card offers integrated remote power management using IPMI. Key features of the Remote Management Module add-on card are:
•Embedded Web Console UI supports remote power on / off, system health, system info, event log
•KVM redirection via either the Remote Management Module NIC or the baseboard NIC used for management traffic; high performance, up to two simultaneous KVM sessions
•USB 2.0 media redirection - boot over remote media
•Security – open SSL, open LDAP
•OEM Customization of the Web Console
•IPMI V2.0 Compliance
•KVM - automatically senses video resolution for best possible screen capture, high-performance mouse tracking and synchronization. It allows remote viewing and configuration in pre-boot POST and BIOS setup
