Artesyn Embedded Technology SharpStreamer PCIE-7207, Installation And Use Manual

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Introduction
SharpStreamer™ PCIE-7207 Installation and Use (6806800T60F)
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1.3 Software Overview
1.3.1 Host OS
The recommended host OS is a standard 64-Bit CentOS 7.x Desktop Linux Distribution. The
PCIE-7207 was tested on the host system running with CentOS 7.1. The Host OS needs to
provide DHCP and TFTP services to enable the PCIE-7207 CPUs to obtain the IP address and PXE
Boot their OS.
On the host system, for each PCIE-7207 card installed, the host detects four (4) Gigabit
Ethernet interfaces; each of these Ethernet interfaces is associated with one PCIE-7207 CPU.
The PCIE-7207 Ethernet interfaces on the host provide access only to the PCIE-7207 CPUs.
1.3.1.1 pci7207 Utility
A utility pci7207 is provided to manage the PCIE-7207 cards installed on a host system. This
utility provides a mechanism to configure the DHCP services and initialize the network
interfaces associated with the PCIE-7207 cards. It can also be used to reset, power down/up
PCIE-7207 CPUs and recover a corrupted or misconfigured BIOS.
1.3.1.2 AMT
The PCIE-7207 card does not have a physical serial console for each of the CPUs; instead it uses
Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) to access the CPU console via SOL or VNC. Intel
AMT is a hardware and firmware technology for remote out-of-band management used by Intel
processors.
AMT is configured on all PCIE-7207 CPUs at the factory. While AMT provides several features,
on the PCIE-7207 CPUs, it is used only to access the serial console of a PCIE-7207 CPU via SOL
or VNC.The default username is
admin and the default password is P@ssw0rd .
1.3.2 PCIE-7207 OS
The PCIE-7207 OS is a standard CentOS 7.1 kernel which has been updated with patches from
Intel Media SDK, and a CentOS 7.1 root file system. The PCIE-7207 OS is delivered as a PXE
bootable image and it contains all required drivers, tools, and utilities for the PCIE-7207 CPUs.
For more information about updating the PCIE-7207 OS, refer the section
BIOS Update on page
95 .