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Platform Management Intel® Server Board SE7520JR2
Revision 1.0
C78844-002
136
LAN Channel Capability Options
Privilege Levels User, Operator, Administrator
Authentication Types None, Straight Password, MD5
Number of LAN Alert Destinations 1
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Gratuitous ARP
5.3.18 Event Filtering and Alerting
The mBMC implements most of the IPMI 1.5 alerting features. The following features are supported:
• PEF
• Alert over LAN
5.3.18.1 Platform Event Filtering (PEF)
The mBMC monitors platform health and logs failure events into the SEL. The Platform Event
Filtering (PEF) feature provides a configurable mechanism to allow events to trigger alert
actions. PEF provides a flexible, general mechanism that enables the mBMC to perform
selectable actions triggered by a configurable set of platform events. The mBMC supports the
following IPMI PEF actions:
• Power-down
• Soft-shutdown (pulse ACPI power button signal)
• Power cycle
• Reset
• Diagnostic Interrupt
• Alert
In addition, the mBMC supports the following OEM actions:
• Fault LED action
• Identification LED action
• Device feedback (Generate specified transaction on peripheral SMBus, or change level of
DEIO pins)
The power-down, soft-shutdown, power cycle and reset actions can be delayed by a specified
number of 100ms up to the maximum PEF delay defined in the IPMI 1.5 specification.
The mBMC maintains an Event Filter table with 30 entries that are used to select which actions
to perform and one fixed/read-only Alert Policy Table entry. No alert strings are supported.
Note: All Fault/Status LED and ID LED behaviors are driven off of PEF. PEF should not be
disabled and the default entry configuration should not be modified or else those behaviors will
be changed.
Each time the PEF module receives an event message, either externally or internally generated,
it compares the event data against the entries in the Event Filter table. The mBMC scans all
entries in the table and determines a set of actions to be performed according to the entries that
were matched. Actions are then executed in order of priority. If there is a combination of power