CHAPTER 8 Operations Management Tools
8.1 Overview of Operations Management Tools
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Operations Management Tools CHAPTER 8
This section describes the operations management tools used in PRIMEQUEST 2000 series
8.1 Overview of Operations Management Tools
The operations management tools for the PRIMEQUEST 2000 series include the Management Board (MMB),
the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) instead of BIOS that controls the hardware, Base Board
Management Controller (BMC), drivers, ServerView Suite (SVS) of the server management software, and so
on. These collectively provide the functions for managing the server system.
The following diagram lists the overall configuration of the operations management tools provided in the
PRIMEQUEST 2000 series.
FIGURE 8.1 Overall configuration diagram of the operations management tools
The MMB Firmware controls the entire server system in linkage with the SVS and other firmware (BIOS or
BMC Firmware).
SVS links with the MMB by communication with IPMI interface via the BMC, and by communication via an
internal LAN.
8.2 MMB
The following MMB functions enable management of the entire system. The MMB also controls the entire
system in linkage with the SVS, the BIOS and the BMC.
Regarding the MMB firmware, see '1.5.1 Firmware'.
8.2.1 Graphical User Interface (GUI)
This section describes the GUI functions of the MMB.
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