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Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)
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PCI SMBus is accessible to the management controller. This allows PCI add-in cards
that support manageability to log events to the System Event Log (SEL).
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BIOS logging of POST progress codes is added to the existing capability of logging
only the BIOS POST errors
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Front panel functionality is enhanced
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For systems with the SATA or SCSI hot-swap controller (HSC), the HSC sensors are
visible to server management software and HSC events are logged in the SEL.
Advanced Edition features
The Advanced Edition adds all the features listed above for the Professional Edition, plus
the following features:
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BMC-resident SNMP support for out-of-band access using 3rd party applications such
as Hewlett-Packard
®
OpenView
®
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Embedded Web Server to access system health, view the SEL, and issue IPMI
commands (For more information, see
“Embedded Web Server” on page 50
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Embedded Command Line Interface (using a Telnet server running on the BMC) to
allow direct terminal access to the BMC
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Alerting via Email
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Intel
®
Advanced Remote Server Control adds remote KVM functionality
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High-speed access to a dedicated NIC for the BMC on the Advanced Edition module
The Intel Advanced Remote Server Control, email alerting, embedded CLI, embedded web,
BMC-resident SNMP agent, SOL, and other firmware-resident features are available
Out-of-Band (OOB). This means that these features are available even when the Operating
System is not running or the AC power is off.
Updating the BMC firmware
You should update the BMC firmware when Gateway Customer Care instructs you to
update it.
Important
If Gateway Server Manager (GSM) software is installed, it must be
uninstalled prior to installing or upgrading an IMM module. For
additional information, see
“Installing an Intel Management Module
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