American Megatrends MegaRAC G4, User Manual

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Chapter Four : Using Your MegaRAC® G4 21
Sensor Monitoring Options
This page allows you to select sensor monitoring options. Sensors can be monitored
external baseboard management controller (BMC) connected to the PMB bus or you can
directly monitor sensors on the I2C bus.
Item Description
Monitoring
Options You can select how you want to monitor the sensors.
Direct Monitoring of sensors on the I2C bus (needs PMCP files)
Monitoring via External BMC (needs IPMB connection)
External BMC
Slave Address If being monitored by an external BMC, you will need to provide the slave
address so that the MegaRAC® G4 card will be able to read data from the
onboard BMC on the motherboard/ server board. 0x20 is the address most
commonly used.
PMCP
monitoring file
(sp.bin)
Select the Soft Processor (SP) File with the
BIN
file extension.
Sensor
definitions file
(sdr.dat) Select the SDR File with the
BIN
file extension.
Upload new
file (if one
already exists) Select this option if the SDR and Soft Processor (SP) File are already loaded
on the card and you want to have it replaced with the new file.
Browse Button Use this button to look for the SDR and Soft Processor (SP) File.
Save Button Use this button to save your settings.