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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