User's Manual

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Chapter 2. Base Station Components
Manage interconnect resources of the shelf. Boards must report their back-
plane interconnect types to SMS before the interconnects can be enabled.
The SMS is comprised of following major components:
Distributed management controllers that manage and monitor the operation
and health of each FRU in the system.
An Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) infrastructure that pro-
vides communications, management, and control among the distributed con-
trollers and to an overall system manage.
A high-level, high-speed services for boards that need TCP/IP based manage-
ment services such as remote booting, SNMP management, and other IP
based services.
Table 2-H covers the faceplate features and Figure 2-6 shows the MSC card.
Figure 2-6 PacketMax Interface of MSC card
Table 2-H MSC Faceplate Features
Feature Function
Main Management
RS-232
(Micro D-9 Serial Port)
Port used to connect to host computers.
Configure this connection to support:
38400, no parity, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no flow control.
10/100/Base-T Used for connectivity to network. Connection to Ele-
ment Management System (EMS)
Sync*