Platform Management OverviewIntel® Server Board S2600IP and Intel® Workstation Board W2600CR TPS
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Intel order number G34153-003
4.7 Advanced Management Feature Support
This section explains the advanced management features supported by the BMC firmware.
4.7.1 Enabling Advanced Management Features
The Advanced management features are to be delivered as part of the BMC FW image. The
BMC’s baseboard SPI flash contains code/data for both the Basic and Advanced features. An
optional add-in card Intel
®
RMM4 lite is used as the activation mechanism. When the BMC FW
initializes, it attempts to access the Intel
®
RMM4 lite. If the attempt to access Intel
®
RMM4 lite is
successful, then the BMC activates the Advanced features.
Advanced manageability features are supported over all NIC ports enabled for server
manageability. This includes baseboard NICs as well as the LAN channel provided by the
optional Dedicated NIC add-in card.
RMM4 is comprised of two boards – RMM4 lite and the optional Dedicated Server Management
NIC (DMN). If the optional Dedicated Server Management NIC is not used then the traffic can
only go through the onboard Integrated BMC-shared NIC and share network bandwidth with the
host system.
Table 27. Enabling Advanced Management Features
Comprehensive IPMI based base manageability
features
Intel
®
Remote Management Module 4 – Lite
Package contains one module –
1- Key for advance Manageability features.
No dedicated NIC for management
Enables KVM and media redirection from the onboard
NIC
Intel
®
Remote Management Module 4
Package includes 2 modules –
1 - key for advance features
2 - Dedicated NIC (1Gbe) for management
Dedicated NIC for management traffic. Higher
bandwidth connectivity for KVM and media
Redirection with 1Gbe NIC.
4.7.2 Keyboard, Video, Mouse (KVM) Redirection
The BMC firmware supports keyboard, video, and mouse redirection (KVM) over LAN. This
feature is available remotely from the embedded web server as a Java applet. This feature is
only enabled when the Intel
®
RMM4 lite is present. The client system must have a Java Runtime
Environment (JRE) version 6.0 or later to run the KVM or media redirection applets.
The BMC supports an embedded KVM application (Remote Console) that can be launched from
the embedded web server from a remote console. USB1.1 or USB 2.0 based mouse and
keyboard redirection are supported. It is also possible to use the KVM-redirection (KVM-r)
session concurrently with media-redirection (media-r). This feature allows a user to interactively
use the keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) functions of the remote server as if the user were
physically at the managed server.
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