Intel E42249-003, Product Specification

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Platform Management Intel
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Server Board S5500BC TPS
Intel order number: E42249-003 Revision 1.0
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4.1 Feature Support
4.1.1 IPMI 2.0 Features

Baseboard management controller (BMC).

IPMI Watchdog timer.

Messaging support, including command bridging and user/session support.
 Chassis device functionality, including power/reset control and BIOS boot flags support.
 Event receiver device: The BMC receives and processes events from other platform
subsystems.
 Field replaceable unit (FRU) inventory device functionality: The BMC supports access to
system FRU devices using IPMI FRU commands.
 System event log (SEL) device functionality: The BMC supports and provides access to
a SEL.
 Sensor device record (SDR) repository device functionality: The BMC supports storage
and access of system SDRs.
 Sensor device and sensor scanning/monitoring: The BMC provides IPMI management of
sensors. It polls sensors to monitor and report system health.

IPMI interfaces.
 Host interfaces include system management software (SMS) with receive message
queue support, and server management mode (SMM).
 Terminal mode serial interface.
 IPMB interface.
 LAN interface that supports the IPMI-over-LAN protocol (RMCP, RMCP+).
 Serial-over-LAN (SOL).
 ACPI state synchronization: The BMC tracks ACPI state changes that are provided by
the BIOS.
 BMC self test: The BMC performs initialization and run-time self-tests, and makes results
available to external entities.
4.1.2 Non-IPMI Features
The BMC supports the following non-IPMI features. This list does not preclude support for future
enhancements or additions.
 In-circuit BMC firmware update.
 Fault resilient booting (FRB): FRB2 is supported by the watchdog timer functionality
 Chassis intrusion detection and chassis intrusion cable presence detection.
 Basic fan control using T-Control version 2 SDRs.