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ATCA-7350 Control via IPMI Programmer’s Reference (6806800H29E)
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Introduction
1.1 Overview
The ATCA-7350 provides an intelligent hardware management system as defined in the
AdvancedTCA Base Specification (PICMG 3.0; AMC.0). This system implements an Intelligent
Peripheral Management Controller (IPMC) based on the proprietary H8S reference design from
American Megatrends Inc.
The ATCA-7350 IPMC supports all standard Intelligent Peripheral Management Interface (IPMI)
commands and provides hardware interfaces for other system managements features such as
hot-swap control, LED control, power control and temperature and voltage monitoring. The
IPMC also supports a Keyboard Controller Style (KCS) based host interface for payload-to-IPMI
communication.
In addition, the following features are included:
1.2 Feature Description
Besides its basic functions, the ATCA-7350 provides the features described in this section.
1.2.1 HPM.1 Specific Firmware Upgrades
Table 1-1 Features
Feature Further Details...
Supported for fault tolerant field upgrade
Support for field updates of firmware via the payload
processor interface
IPMC Firmware Upgrade on page 12
Serial over LAN (SOL) Serial over LAN on page 13
Sensor management including, among others, power
good and boot bank supervision sensor
Sensors on page 13
FRU inventory with MAC address record MAC Address Record on page 13
Asynchronous event notification Asynchronous Event Notification on page 13
Graceful shutdown timeout Graceful Shutdown Timeout on page 13
Local system event log (SEL) Local System Event Log on page 14
External watchdog External Watchdog on page 14
BIOS boot configuration via IPMI Boot Configuration Parameters on page 14
Chassis Device Commands on page 18