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Chapter 9 IPMI

9.1 IPMI introduction

This product fully supports Intelligent Platform Management Interface
2.0 (IPMI 2.0) specifications. It uses a micro-controller (Hitachi H8/
2167) to run an IPMI firmware.

9.2 Definitions

• BMC - (Baseboard Management Controller) This is the common abbre-

viation for an IPMI Baseboard Management Controller

• IPMB – (Intelligent Platform Management Bus) Protocol defined for

passing IPMI messages over a public I2C bus.

• IPMI - (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) A standardized

system management interface. Please refer to the IPMI Specification
for more detail.

• IPMIv2.0 – Specifically version 2.0 of IPMI

9.3 IPMI function list

The following standard IPMI commands will be supported. The 5th col-
umn (Mandatory / Optional) is the record to distinguish the command is
mandatory or optional based on the definitions of Intel IPMI specification
(Intelligent Platform Management Interface Specification v2.0, revision
1.0, Intel, HP, NEC and Dell).

Table 9.1: Supported IPMI commands

IPMI Device Global
Commands

NetFn

Cmd

Mandatory /
Optional

Get Device Id

App

0x01

M

Cold Reset

App

0x02

O

Get Self Test Results

App

0x04

M

Manufacturing Test On

App

0x05

O

Set ACPI Power State

App

0x06

O

Get ACPI Power State

App

0x07

O

Get Device GUID

App

0x08

O

BMC Device and
Messaging Commands

NetFn

Cmd

Mandatory /
Optional