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Chapter 4
System Monitoring and Alarms
The CPC5565 performs system monitoring and alarming functions using the flexible, industry
standard, Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). The CPC5565 comes equipped
with an on-board Intelligent Platform Management Controller (IPMC) chip, IPMI and IPMB J-
connector pinouts, and IPMC firmware already installed on the board. The IPMC firmware is
based on Pigeon Point System's (PPS) MMC firmware.
Key topics in this chapter include:
• “IPMC Functions,” on page 61
• “Summary of Supported Commands,” on page 62
• “Device Locator Record,” on page 64
• “Sensors,” on page 66
• “Serial Interface Subsystem,” on page 68
• “Firmware Upgrade Process,” on page 76
IPMC Functions
Some of the functions available on the module through the IPMI interface include:
• Monitoring of the CPU and board temperatures with critical and non-critical alerting
• Monitoring of the voltage rails with critical and non-critical alerting
• Remote reset and shutdown of the module (hard and soft)
• Monitoring of ejector switches for hot-swap functionality (PT’s NexusWare IPMI driver and firmware
provide additional payload features for hot swap)
• Monitoring and event reporting of critical errors
• Interface to IPMB
In order to take advantage of the features provided by the firmware, IPMI-aware applications
must be developed. Information on IPMI v1.5 is provided at:
http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/spec.htm