Fujitsu Primergy BX900 S2 - Management Blade Functions

26 Operating Manual BX900S2
Functional overview
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The connection blades support hot-swapping. By installing two connection
blades in two adjacent slots (not possible with Infiniband connection blades),
you can provide redundant network connections for the server blades.
Information
For the latest information on optional products provided for the BX900 S2
system unit see the configurator of the system unit:
http://ts.fujitsu.com/products/standard_servers/index.html (for the EMEA market)
http://jp.fujitsu.com/platform/server/primergy/system/ (for the Japanese market)
Management blade
The PRIMERGY BX900 S2 system unit has slots for two redundant, hot-swap
management blades with an integrated management solution for complete
remote administration of the system.
Supported programs
The ServerView management blade is compliant with IPMI (Intelligent
Platform Management Interface) 2.0. It supports schemes like FRU
(Field Replaceable Units), SEL (System Event Log), SDR (Sensor Data
Records) and the PDA (Prefailure Detection and Analysis) technology
from Fujitsu. It also allows the configuration of a watchdog timer.
Communication with the server blades
The ServerView management blade communicates with the server
blades via an I
2
C bus. An IPMB interface is provided to support the user,
when performing hardware monitoring tasks for the server blades.
Communication with the connection blades
To enable communication with the connection blades, a CLI interface is
provided. It allows to configure settings of the connection blades, such
as the IP address, the IP mask, or the IP gateway address.
Hardware monitoring
The hardware monitoring functions provided by the ServerView
management blade include:
– Monitoring temperature of each server blade via the IPMB interface
– Monitoring the status of the system fans
– Setting the system fans to an optimum speed
– Monitoring the status ot the power supply modules