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Chapter 9
ATCA-7480 Installation and Use (6806800T17A)
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IPMI Feature Set
The ATCA-7480 provides an intelligent hardware management system, as defined in the
AdvancedTCA® Base Specification (PICMG® 3.0; AMC.0). This system incorporates two IPMI
controllers:
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An Intelligent Platform Management Controller (IPMC) based on the BMR-A2F-AMCc®
reference design from Pigeon Point Systems.
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A Module Management Controller (MMC) residing at the RTM, based on the BMR-AVR-
AMCm® reference design from Pigeon Point Systems.
Pigeon Point Systems IPM Sentry products are consistent with all current PICMG specifications
as well as IPMI v2.0 compliant.
The ATCA-7480 implements all standard Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
commands and provides hardware interfaces for other system management features such as
Hot Swap control, LED control, power control, as well as temperature and voltage monitoring.
The IPMC also supports a Keyboard Controller Style (KCS) based host interface for direct
payload to IPMI communication.
The ATCA-7480 provides a rich feature set:
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Carrier SDR Repository
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FRU inventory
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Sensor Management (BIOS/FPGA Boot Bank Sensor, OS Boot Sensor, Boot Error Sensor,
Memory Sensor, Firmware Progress Sensor, Reset Cause Sensor, PIM Power Entry specific
Sensors, CPU/DIMM temperature sensors, Boot Initiated Sensor, Critical IRQ Sensor,
Battery Sensor, CPLD Power Failure Sensors).
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Asynchronous event notification
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RTM hot swap management
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Configurable Ejector Handle Debounce
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HPM.1 firmware upgrades for IPMI, BIOS, and FPGA
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HPM.2 and HPM.3
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BIOS and FPGA Boot Bank supervision
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BIOS Boot Configuration via IPMI
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BIOS Failsafe
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Serial/IPMI over LAN