Intel® Management Module Installation and User’s Guide
5
Introduction
The Intel
®
Management Module is an upgrade to the National Semiconductor PC87431 mini-BMC
management controller on the Intel
®
Server Board SE7520AF2, Intel
®
Server Board SE7520BD2,
Intel
®
Server Board SE7520JR2, and Intel
®
Server Board SE8500HW4. The Intel Management
Module plugs into a connector on the server board. The Intel Management Module is available in
two versions:
•
Professional Edition
•
Advanced Edition
Intel
®
Management Module Features
Professional Edition Features
The Professional Edition includes the following features:
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All the features provided by the mBMC
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Support for IPMI v2.0 specification
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Additional sensors
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Temperature-based fan speed control by the BMC
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Additional FRU records are visible to the management controller and management software
applications (for example, 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 users (each with
configurable user names and passwords on each LAN or Serial channel)
•
The IPMI 2.0 serial features are supported. The serial port can be used for console
redirection, Terminal-mode CLI, dial paging, Serial Over LAN (SOL), and other
management functions.
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The Intelligent Chassis Management Bus (ICMB) is supported
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PCI SMBus is accessible to the management controller. This allows PCI add-in cards that
support manageability to log events to the System Event Log (SEL).
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BIOS logging of POST progress codes is added to the existing capability of logging only the
BIOS POST errors
•
Front panel functionality is enhanced (
See
: Secure Mode Button Actions in the platform
Technical Product Specification
)
•
For systems with the SATA or SCSI hot-swap controller (HSC), the HSC sensors are visible
to server management software and HSC events are logged in the SEL.
