Tyan Computer M3291, M3295 warranty Overview, What are SMDC?, SMDC and TSO

Chapter 1: Overview

Servers today provide the necessary resource for corporate databases, financial and statistical analysis data, military defense networks, and much more. To act as the heart and soul of any network, servers must be infallible or near infallible. There must be competent management of IT resources at all times in order to keep servers and networks running smoothly and without incident. However, most network and server administration staff can just provide part of that support, they cannot be present 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on a constant 365-day calendar.

To help provide a solution for constant vigilance, the server remote management card eliminates the problem of having an administrator on call at all times. Tyan has the entire package to manage servers and networks. This makes the Tyan solution one of the most complete IT resource tools available.

1.1 What are SMDC?

The Tyan Server Management Daughter Card (SMDC) is a powerful, yet cost-efficient, solution for high-end server management hardware packages. The SMDC provides remote system monitoring and control even when the operating system is absent or fails, and empowers server boards with advanced industry standard features. It effectively enables IT Managers to have remote and multi-interface access to monitor, control, and diagnosing activities.

The SMDC is powered by an intelligent controller known as the Baseboard Management Control (BMC). The BMC is a standalone mini-CPU that runs on its own Real Time Operating System (RTOS) to complete a variety of tasks. Backed by Renesas reliable H8 technology, systems are consistently monitored and supported.

Unlike regular cards such as AGP cards, network cards or SCSI cards, the SMDC is not a peripheral card that requires any hardware specific driver. As long as standby power supports the system, the SMDC will monitor the system.

The Tyan SMDC M3291/3295 provides many diverse methods to communicate with the hardware. There is flexibility to choose among Keyboard Controller Style (KCS), Intelligent Platform Management Bus (IPMB) and standard IPMI-Over-LANcommunication as defined in latest IPMI 2.0 specification. The Tyan SMDC M3291/3295 is compatible with all IPMI-compliant software as well as with the Tyan System Operator™ (TSO) 2.0 software package. The SMDC hardware is OS- independent and TSO is fully compatible with all major Operating Systems.

1.2 SMDC and TSO

The TSO is software made by Tyan which acts as a front end client that provides additional functionality for the SMDC. The SMDC and TSO offer remote management over servers. The remote management gives the ability to monitor and control remote resources, such as temperature monitoring, fan control, turning system on/off, or modifying system settings remotely.

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