Chapter 2. Remote Management Module overview
This section gives you an overview of the Remote Management Module and highlights signicant benets 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 trafc; 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 conguration in pre-boot POST and BIOS setup
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