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80 Sun Fire X4500/ X4540 Servers Administration Guide • October 2008
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IPMI 2.0 BMC
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Platform Control agents diagnostics software
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RKVMS
Lights Out Management is performed on the Sun Fire X4540 server through
IPMItool, a command-line utility for controlling IPMI-enabled devices. For more
information about Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM, refer to the
Integrated
Lights Out Manager (ILOM) Administration Guide , (819-1160).
About Intelligent Platform Management
(IPMI)
Intelligent Platform Management (IPMI) refers to the autonomous monitoring,
logging, recovery, and inventory control features implemented in hardware and
firmware.
There are two major components of platform management: the Service Processor (SP
or BMC) and the System Management Software (SMS). Platform status information
can be obtained and recovery actions initiated under situations in which system
management software and normal in-band management mechanisms are
unavailable.
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a network management protocol
used almost exclusively in TCP/IP networks. It provides remote access by
SNMP-compliant entities to monitor and control network devices and to manage
configurations, statistics collection, performance, and security on a network.
IPMI messages can be used to communicate with the SP BMC over serial and LAN
interfaces, so software designed for in-band (local) management can be re-used for
out-of-band (remote) management simply by changing the low-level
communications layer.
The IPMItool is a simple command-line interface to systems that support the IPMI
v2.0 specification. IPMItool provides the ability to read the sensor data repository
and print sensor values, display the contents of the system event log, and SNMP.
Refer to the Sun Fire X4540 Server ILOM Supplement and Sun Fire X4540 server
Diagnostics Guide for additional information about IPMI.