Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 1 Introduction 1-1 Overview This user's manual covers the AOC-1UIPMI-B, AOC-IPMI20-E, AOC-1UIPMI-LANG and AOC-LPIPMI-LANG add-on cards. These cards are highly efficient, highly com- patible and easy-to-use IPMI cards. They allow the user to take advantage of the BMC, a baseboard management controller installed on a server motherboard and the IPMIView, an IPMI compliant management application software loaded in a PC, to provide serial links between the main processor and other system components, allowing for network interfacing via remote access.
With an independent Hitachi Renesas H8S processor built-in, these add-on cards provide the user with a solution to ease the complex and expensive systems, allowing an administrator to access, monitor, diagnose and manage network interfacing anywhere, anytime. 1-2 Features of IPMI Version 2.0 Software The AOC-1UIPMI-B, AOC-IPMI20-E, AOC-1UIPMI-LANG and AOC-LPIPMI-LANG add-on cards support the functionality of IPMI Version 2.0. The key features include the following: Supports IPMI 2.0 (IPMI over LAN and serial over LAN) Supports Emergency Management Port (EMP):
LAN Shares LAN controller with main board Supports Hardware Health Monitoring via IPMI Supports Event Log Information Offers OS (Operating System) Independency Provides Network Management Security via Remote Access/Console Redirec- tion Supports the following management tools: IPMIView, CLI (Command Line Interface) Supports RMCP+ Protocols 1-1