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Intel® Management Module Installation and User’s Guide

 

Advanced Edition Features 

The Advanced Edition adds all the features listed above for the Professional Edition, plus the 
following features: 

 

BMC-resident SNMP support for out-of-band access using 3

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 party applications such as 

Hewlett-Packard* OpenView* 

 

Embedded web server to access system health, view the SEL, and issue IPMI commands 

 

Embedded Command Line Interface (using a Telnet server running on the BMC) to allow 
direct terminal access to the BMC 

 

Alerting via Email 

 

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 Advanced Remote Server Control adds remote KVM functionality 

 

High-speed access to a dedicated NIC for the BMC on the Advanced Edition module 

 

The Intel Advanced Remote Server Control, email alerting, embedded CLI, embedded web, 
BMC-resident SNMP agent, SOL, and other firmware-resident features are available Out-of-Band 
(OOB).  This means that these features are available even when the Operating System is not 
running or the AC power is off. 

Getting the Latest Information and Support 

The latest information on each server board and Intel software is available at: 

http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server

  

Platform Compatibility and System Requirements 

The Intel Management Modules are compatible with the following Intel server boards: 

 

Intel Server Board SE7520AF2 

 

Intel Server Board SE7520BD2 

 

Intel Server Board SE7520JR2 

 

Intel Server Board SE8500HW4 

 

Table 1 on page 7 lists the minimum system requirements. 

Summary of Contents for Management Module

Page 1: ...Intel Management Module Installation and User s Guide Document P N C81751 002...

Page 2: ...GHTS IS GRANTED BY THIS DOCUMENT EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN INTEL S TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE FOR SUCH PRODUCTS INTEL ASSUMES NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER AND INTEL DISCLAIMS ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY...

Page 3: ...e Intel Management Module Professional Edition 12 Installing the Intel Management Module Advanced Edition 13 Removing the Intel Management Module Advanced Edition 16 Intel Advanced Remote Server Contr...

Page 4: ...4 Intel Management Module Installation and User s Guide...

Page 5: ...Power Supply DIMM and hot swap controller FRU s The size of the System Event Log SEL is increased from 92 entries to 3276 entries The number of BMC users is increased from one anonymous user to four u...

Page 6: ...ated NIC for the BMC on the Advanced Edition module The Intel Advanced Remote Server Control email alerting embedded CLI embedded web BMC resident SNMP agent SOL and other firmware resident features a...

Page 7: ...l Management Module Advanced Edition installed on the managed server Embedded Web Server Intel Management Module Advanced Edition installed on the managed server Embedded CLI Telnet Server Intel Manag...

Page 8: ...your server baseboard Location of Intel Management Module Header The following illustrations show the location of the Intel Management Module header on the Intel Server Board SE7520AF2 Intel Server Bo...

Page 9: ...dule Installation and User s Guide 9 Figure 2 Location of Intel Management Module Connector on the Intel Server Board SE7520BD2 Figure 3 Location of Intel Management Module Connector on the Intel Serv...

Page 10: ...10 Intel Management Module Installation and User s Guide Figure 4 Location of Intel Management Module Connector on the Intel Server Board SE8500HW4 Module Header...

Page 11: ...of the standoff and retraction strap on the Professional Edition module the location is the same on the Advanced Edition module The upper illustration shows the bottom of the module The lower illustra...

Page 12: ...date the firmware and FRU SDR for your server board Use the latest files and instructions for your server board that you downloaded from http support intel com support motherboards server 9 Install IS...

Page 13: ...nagement Module Advanced Edition The following illustration shows the location of the standoff connector and retraction strap on the Advanced Edition module KEY A Location of the extraction strap B Lo...

Page 14: ...ing illustration shows the network interface card filler panel and screws Figure 7 Intel Management Module Network Interface Card Rear Filler Panel and Screws 2 I2C Cables one long and one short cable...

Page 15: ...rd SE7520JR2 install the NIC on the rear panel using 2 screws The following illustration shows the location of the network connector NIC3 on the rear panel of the Intel Server Chassis SR1400 NIC3 Repl...

Page 16: ...e Advanced Edition module do the following 1 Power down the system 2 Remove AC power 3 Open the chassis to gain access to the Intel Management Module 4 Disconnect the cable to the NIC 5 Pinch the end...

Page 17: ...wer application Run the Intel Server Configuration Wizard SCW on the Intel Server Deployment Toolkit CD to enable the KVM feature To use Intel Advanced Remote Server Control with the Advance Edition m...

Page 18: ...Use the Intel Server Configuration Wizard to configure the email alerting feature You can configure the following parameters Number of supported alert configurations Email From To and Subject lines Al...

Page 19: ...talling and using the OS specific SNMP Subagents refer to the Installing and Configuring the Intel Server Manager 8 SNMP Subagents document SNMP_Subagent_Install_and_Config_Guide pdf on the ISM 8 Inst...

Page 20: ...lication 4 Set the SNMP community string to public to read the sensor data or private to use the SNMP SET commands The user has two SNMP SET commands available when using the BMC resident SNMP agent S...

Page 21: ...erver also allows you to establish a Serial Over LAN SOL session To use the embedded CLI feature do the following 1 Connect to the Telnet server For example to Telnet to a server at IP address 222 222...

Page 22: ...has six firmware resident web pages System Summary Page displays the overall system health and health indicators for individual sensors System Event Log displays selected number of records from the Sy...

Page 23: ...nter problems connecting to the server try disabling automatic configuration of the browser LAN settings 2 The Embedded Web Server will prompt you for the BMC user name and password the first time you...

Page 24: ...ate num CriticalUpdateRate num UsrUrl1 url on line help page URL UsrVal1 string navigation bar label the default is help UsrUrl2 url the default is support intel com UsrVal2 string navigation bar labe...

Page 25: ...is enabled A FRAME FRAMESET Perl Script Example In the following example a Perl script sends an HTTP GET to the server Use IO Socket sock new IO Socket INET PeerAddr 222 222 39 10 PeerPort 80 Proto tc...

Page 26: ...command syntax Table 4 Standard Return Values for CLI Commands ok unsupported command unrecognized command command time out insufficient privilege session in progress Table 5 Command Line Interface Sy...

Page 27: ...atings nr non recoverable potential damage system hardware in jeopardy or damaged uf unspecified fault fault detected but severity unspecified status not available unknown typically because system pow...

Page 28: ...on console Set session to system console for power on off Switch power off no OS shutdown cycle Switch power off then on no OS shutdown state Display target s current power state ON OFF power Operato...

Page 29: ...d parameter mac ip subnet gateway Causes the BMC to generate an IPMI diagnostic interrupt NMI for IA 32 systems interrupt Operator console Switches to console mode and issues the interrupt version Cal...

Page 30: ...or ON Application ON Button OFF NOTE Performing a graceful OS shutdown requires that an Intel supplied OS agent be present If this agent is not present or is unable to does not respond after 7 seconds...

Page 31: ...rver Board SE7520BN2 User Guide provided with the server board and available on support intel com Intel Server Board SE8500HW4 User Guide provided with the server board and available on support intel...

Page 32: ...board Video Mouse LED Light Emitting Diode mBMC mini Baseboard Management Controller National Semiconductor PC87431 MIB Management Information Base NIC Network Interface Card NMS Network Management St...

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