•Automaticmicroprocessordisableonfailureandrestartinatwo-microprocessorconfigurationwhenone
microprocessorsignalsaninternalerror.Whenoneofthemicroprocessorsfail,theserverwilldisablethe
failingmicroprocessorandrestartwiththeothermicroprocessor.
•AutomaticServerRestart(ASR)whenPOSTisnotcompleteortheoperatingsystemhangsandthe
operatingsystemwatchdogtimertimes-out.TheIMMmightbeconfiguredtowatchfortheoperating
systemwatchdogtimerandrebootthesystemafteratimeout,iftheASRfeatureisenabled.Otherwise,
theIMMallowstheadministratortogenerateanonmaskableinterrupt(NMI)bypressinganNMIbutton
ontheLCDsysteminformationdisplaypanel(ifavailable)foranoperating-systemmemorydump.ASR
issupportedbyIPMI.
•Avirtualmediakey,whichenablesremotepresencesupport(remotevideo,remotekeyboard/mouse,
andremotestorage).
•Bootsequencemanipulation.
•Command-lineinterface.
•Configurationsaveandrestore.
•DIMMerrorassistance.TheUnifiedExtensibleFirmwareInterface(UEFI)disablesafailingDIMMthatis
detectedduringPOST,andtheIMMlightstheassociatedsystemerrorLEDandthefailingDIMMerrorLED.
•Environmentalmonitorwithfanspeedcontrolfortemperature,voltages,fanfailure,powersupplyfailure,
andpowerbackplanefailure.
•IntelligentPlatformManagementInterface(IPMI)SpecificationV2.0andIntelligentPlatformManagement
Bus(IPMB)support.
•Invalidsystemconfiguration(CONFIG)LEDsupport.
•LCDsysteminformationdisplaypanel(ifavailable)reportserrorsthatoccurwithfans,powersupplies,
microprocessor,harddiskdrives,andsystemerrors.
•Localfirmwarecodeflashupdate
•Nonmaskableinterrupt(NMI)detectionandreporting.
•Operating-systemfailurebluescreencapture.
•PCIconfigurationdata.
•Power/resetcontrol(power-on,hardandsoftshutdown,hardandsoftreset,schedulepowercontrol).
•Querypower-supplyinputpower.
•ROM-basedIMMfirmwareflashupdates.
•SerialoverLAN(SOL).
•Serialportredirectionovertelnetorssh.
•SMIhandling
•Systemeventlog(SEL)-userreadableeventlog.
TheIMMalsoprovidesthefollowingremoteservermanagementcapabilitiesthroughtheipmitool,a
managementutilityprogram:
•Command-lineinterface(IPMIShell)
Thecommand-lineinterfaceprovidesdirectaccesstoservermanagementfunctionsthroughtheIPMI
2.0protocol.Usethecommand-lineinterfacetoissuecommandstocontroltheserverpower,view
systeminformation,andidentifytheserver.Youcanalsosaveoneormorecommandsasatextfileand
runthefileasascript.
•SerialoverLAN
EstablishaSerialoverLAN(SOL)connectiontomanageserversfromaremotelocation.Youcanremotely
viewandchangetheUEFIsettings,restarttheserver,identifytheserver,andperformothermanagement
functions.AnystandardTelnetclientapplicationcanaccesstheSOLconnection.
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