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Chapter 3: Managing and Maintaining Your Server
■ SDR/SEL timestamp clock
■ Board set FRU information interface
■ Fault resilient booting
■ System management watchdog timer
■ Front panel system diagnostic-interrupt handling
■ Platform Management Interruption (PMI) / System Diagnostic Interrupt (SDI) status
monitor
■ Event receiver
■ System interface to the IPMB (via system interface ports)
■ IPMI Management Controller Initialization Agent (MCIA)
■ Emergency Management Port (EMP) interface
■ Serial/modem and LAN alerting
In this server, the BMC is also the chassis bridge controller, providing integrated ICMB
support. ICMB transports server management information between chassis in a cluster
configuration that can contain multiple servers and peripherals.
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Management Module (IMM) features
Professional Edition features
The Professional Edition includes the following features:
■ All the features provided by the mBMC
■ Support for IPMI v2.0 specification
■ Additional sensors
■ Temperature-based fan speed control by the BMC
■ Additional FRU records are visible to the management controller and management
software applications (for example, Power Supply, DIMM, and hot-swap controller
FRU’s)
■ The size of the System Event Log (SEL) is increased from 92 entries to 3276 entries
■ The number of BMC users is increased from one anonymous user to four users (each
with configurable user names and passwords on each LAN or Serial channel)
■ The IPMI 2.0 serial features are supported. The serial port can be used for console
redirection, Terminal-mode CLI, dial paging, Serial Over LAN (SOL), and other
management functions.
■ The Intelligent Chassis Management Bus (ICMB) is supported
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