User Guide

ATCA-7350 Control via IPMI Programmer’s Reference (6806800H29E)

Introduction

1.1 Overview

The ATCA-7350 provides an intelligent hardware management system as defined in the

AdvancedTCA Base Specification (PICMG 3.0; AMC.0). This system implements an Intelligent

Peripheral Management Controller (IPMC) based on the proprietary H8S reference design from

American Megatrends Inc.

The ATCA-7350 IPMC supports all standard Intelligent Peripheral Management Interface (IPMI)

commands and provides hardware interfaces for other system managements features such as

hot-swap control, LED control, power control and temperature and voltage monitoring. The

IPMC also supports a Keyboard Controller Style (KCS) based host interface for payload-to-IPMI

communication.

In addition, the following features are included:

1.2 Feature Description

Besides its basic functions, the ATCA-7350 provides the features described in this section.

1.2.1 HPM.1 Specific Firmware Upgrades

Table 1-1 Features

Feature Further Details...

Supported for fault tolerant field upgrade

Support for field updates of firmware via the payload

processor interface

IPMC Firmware Upgrade on page 12

Serial over LAN (SOL) Serial over LAN on page 13

Sensor management including, among others, power

good and boot bank supervision sensor

Sensors on page 13

FRU inventory with MAC address record MAC Address Record on page 13

Asynchronous event notification Asynchronous Event Notification on page 13

Graceful shutdown timeout Graceful Shutdown Timeout on page 13

Local system event log (SEL) Local System Event Log on page 14

External watchdog External Watchdog on page 14

BIOS boot configuration via IPMI Boot Configuration Parameters on page 14

Chassis Device Commands on page 18