
DGX Station A100
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Chapter 3. Using the BMC
The DGX Station A100 comes with a baseboard management controller (BMC) to monitor and
control various hardware devices on the system, system sensors, and other parameters.
CAUTION:
Before you can log into the BMC, see the security information in
BMC features its own management network port and VGA Display port.
The DGX Station A100 features two display devices, the DGX Display Adapter and the BMC
Display Adapter. Depending on the BIOS settings you can direct the OS X display to either
adapter. These settings can be adjusted to use one of the three modes listed before from the
BIOS. The nvidia-conf-xconfig.service manages this function for the X-Windowing system.
Here is a list of the display select modes:
Auto
Automatically configures the X-windowing system to use whichever compatible display
adapter is currently present in the system. The default choice is to use the NVIDIA DGX
Display Adapter (mini-DP), however if this adapter is not present the on-board BMC Display
Adapter (15pin VGA) will be chosen. If neither of the adapters is detected for any reason, the
service will exit without setup.