CONFIGURATION GUIDE
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NEC Express5800/A2040d, A2020d, A2010d, A1040d
NEC Corporation
Rev.2.0
– Oct. 2017
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Server Management
The EXPRESSSCOPE Engine SP3, integrated into the server (service processor (BMC)), provides superior
remote control and system management features listed in the table below.
Standard
Hardware Monitoring
Temperature/HDD/fan/voltage/power/RAID
Degradation (memory/HDD etc.)
Hardware configuration information collection
Hardware event log collection
Boot Monitoring
POST/BIOS stall, Booting, OS panic, Shutdown
1
Alerting
HW error, Boot error and OS panic
(by SNMP, E-mail)
3
Remote KVM (via LAN)
POST/BIOS setup, ROM utility
Boot screen, Panic screen
CUI-based screen (OS console)
GUI-based screen (OS console)
Remote Control (via LAN)
Remote reset/Power on-off/dump
Remote power capping
BIOS/BMC FW update
Remote BIOS setup (partial configuration only)
OS shutdown
1
Remote media (CD/DVD/FD/USB)
CLP (Command Line Protocol) (DMTF compliant)
Remote control via Web browser (multi user login at the
same time)
Scheduling (without UPS, ESMPRO/SM required)
1
Maintenance
EXPRESSSCOPE® Profile Key (Backup/restore BIOS/BMC
setup information)
Others
Set automatic IP address via DNS/DHCP
LDAP/Active Directory verification/user control
Clock synchronization of main unit and the RTC
Access log collection
IPv6 supported (Web console/CLP/e-mail alert)
BMC Failover
When master BMC fails, switch to stand-by BMC
2
Industry standard
IPMI
2.0
1
Not supported under VMware environment
2
Features to recovery EXPRESSSCOPE Engine SP3 itself. Supoprted only for A2040d/A2020d/A2010d.
For A2010d, reboot required to failover to stand-by BMC. Need to connect master and stand-by BMC to 2
Management LAN interface from 2 Management LAN ports.
