Server Management Guide

Baseboard Management Controller
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– Display system asset information for the product, board, and chassis.
 Display of BMC-owned sensors (name, status, current reading, enabled thresholds), including
color-code status of sensors.
 Provides ability to filter sensors based on sensor type (Voltage, Temperature, Fan and Power
supply related)
 Automatic refresh of sensor data with a configurable refresh rate.
 On-line help.
 Display/clear SEL (display is in easily understandable human readable format).
 Supports major industry-standard browsers (Microsoft Internet Explorer* and
Mozilla Firefox*).
 Automatically logs out after user-configurable inactivity period.
 Embedded Platform Debug feature - Allow the user to initiate a “debug dump” to a file that can be
sent to Intel
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for debug purposes.
 Severity level indication of SEL events. The web server UI displays the severity level associated
with each event in the SEL. The severity level correlates with the front panel system status LED
(“OK”, “Degraded”, “Non-Fatal”, or “Fatal”).
 Display of memory information as is available over IPMI over LAN.
 Ability to view and configure VLAN settings.
 Capability to block logins for a period of time after several consecutive failed login attempts. The
lock-out period and the number of failed logins that initiates the lock-out period are configurable
by the user.
 Embedded Platform Debug
The Embedded Platform Debug feature supports capturing low-level debug data (applicable MSRs, PCI
config-space registers, and so on). This feature allows a user to export this data into a file that is
retrievable through the embedded web GUI, as well as through host and remote IPMI methods, for the
purpose of sending to an Intel
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engineer for an enhanced debugging capability. The files are compressed,
encrypted, and password protected. The file is not meant to be viewable by the end user but rather to
provide additional debugging capability to an Intel
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support engineer.
A list of data that may be captured using this feature includes but is not limited to:
 Platform sensor readings
– This includes all “readable” sensors that can be accessed by the BMC FW and have associated
SDRs populated in the SDR repository. This does not include any “event-only” sensors. (All BIOS
sensors and some BMC and ME sensors are “event-only”; meaning that they are not readable using
an IPMI Get Sensor Reading command but rather are used just for event logging purposes).
 SEL
– The current SEL contents are saved in both hexadecimal and text format.