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Ethernetconnectivity
TheservercomeswithanintegratedIntelGigabitEthernetcontrolleraswellasanEthernetphysicallayer
(PHY)oftheOpenSystemsInterconnectionmodel(OSImodel).Theyprovidetheserverwiththeability
tosupporttwoEthernetconnectorsontherearpanelwith10Mbps,100Mbps,or1000Mbpsnetwork
connectivity.Formoreinformation,see“Rearviewoftheserver”onpage19.
Reliability,availability,andserviceability
Reliability,availability,andserviceability(hereinafterreferredtoasRAS)arethreeimportantserverdesign
features.TheRASfeatureshelpyoutoensuretheintegrityofthedatastoredontheserver,theavailabilityof
theserverwhenyouneedit,andtheeasewithwhichyoucandiagnoseandcorrectproblems.
YourserverhasthefollowingRASfeatures:
•Securityfeatures
–Serverlocks(see“Serverlocks”onpage22
)
–Administratorpasswordanduserpasswordtohelpprotectunauthorizedaccesstotheserver(see
“Usingpasswords”onpage67)
–TrustedPlatformModule(TPM)connectoronthesystemboardforaTPMmodule,whichisasecurity
chip,tohelpprotectyourserverandenhanceserversecurity
Note:TheTPMmoduleisonlyavailableinsomemodels.
–Remotemonitoringorcontrolbyanadministratortoprovideprotectionorhelp
–Hot-swapredundantpowersuppliestohelpyouavoidsignicantinterruptiontotheoperationofthe
systemwhenapowersupplyfails(availableinsomemodels)
•Basicsystemmanagementfeatures
–Abilitytostorethepower-onself-test(POST)hardwaretestresults
–BIOSSetupUtilityprogram
TheBIOSSetupUtilityprogramhelpsyouviewtheserverinformationandconguretheserverinthe
pre-operatingsystemenvironment.See“UsingtheSetupUtilityprogram”onpage57
.
–TMM(alsoknownasBMC),andIntelligentPlatformManagementInterface(IPMI)2.0
ThesystemboardplatformmanagementsubsystemisbasedontheintegratedTMMfeatures.The
TMMisamanagementchipthatisintegratedonthesystemboardofyourserver.WiththeTMMchip,
nomatterwhatconditiontheserveroperatingsystemisinandnomatteriftheserverisonoroff,as
longastheserverisconnectedtonetworkandanacpowersource,theinteractionwiththeTMM
controlledserverscanbeachievedthroughsystemnetwork.Theusercanobtaintheserverhardware
healthinformationandsystemeventlog(SEL),andisabletoconducttheoperationsincludingturning
onorofftheserver,restartingtheserver,andsoon.Thispartoftheservermanagementisindependent
oftheoperatingsystemandiscalledout-of-bandmanagement.
ThesystemboardplatformmanagementsubsystemconsistsoftheintegratedTMM,communication
buses,sensors,BasicInputOutputSystem(BIOS),andservermanagementrmware.Itisresponsible
forerrorreporting,systempowercontrol,thermalmonitoring,systemfancontrol,andother
managementfeatures.TheTMMprovidessystemmanagementandmonitoringfeaturesbasedonthe
IPMI2.0specication.IPMIhelpslowertheoverallcostsofservermanagement.Youcanndmore
informationaboutIPMI2.0fromtheWebsiteofIntel.TheTMMalsosupportssomenon-IPMIfeatures,
suchastheDynamicHostCongurationProtocol(DHCP)andthePlatformEnvironmentControl
Interface(PECI),toprovidemoresystemmanagementfunctions.
RefertotheRemoteManagementModuleUserGuideonthedocumentationDVDthatcomeswithyour
serverformoreinformation.
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