Kontron AM5010 IPMI - Manual (Page 9)

AM5010 IPMI Firmware User Guide
ID 1022-2948, Rev. 1.0 © 2008 Kontron AG Page 9
6. MMC Firmware
6.1 Key Features
• compliant with the related IPMI and PICMG® specifications (refer to 4.2, Related
Documentation)
• firmware designed and specially made for AdvancedMC environments (ATCA, µTCA)
• supports two KCS interfaces with interrupt support
• supports the local IPMB (IPMB-L) interface
• out of band management and monitoring using IPMB-L interface permits access to
sensors regardless of module CPU state
• sensor thresholds fully configurable
• sensor names prefixed with AMC module Bay ID (A1…4, B1…4)
• Usable in µTCA slots 1…12. Sensor names for slots 9…12 are prefixed with C1…C4
• complete IPMI watchdog functionality
• complete FRU functionality (refer to 6.7)
• firmware can be updated in the field (refer to 6.4.2)
• two firmware banks implemented, firmware bank management is done by the open tool
ipmitool (function fwum) [1] (refer to 6.4.1)
• downloading new firmware image does not break currently running firmware activities
(refer to 6.4.2).
• manual and automatic firmware image roll-back in case of upgrade failure (refer to
6.4.2)
• firmware customizable per BIOS menu or per OEM IPMI commands (refer to 6.5)
• interoperable with other AMC, ATCA, or IPMI solutions
• OEM board supervision and control extensions such as firmware hub select and boot
order configuration (refer to 6.2.2)
• BIOS supervisor and automated switch to recover image from second firmware hub
(refer to 6.11)
• Serial over LAN (SOL, refer to 6.13.5) support
• IPMI over LAN (IOL, refer to 6.13.4) support
• Graceful shutdown support (refer to 6.12)
• “Health” LED shows heartbeat and pulses if a KCS interface is active. The “out-of-
service” (OOS) LED pulses when IPMB-L is active (refer to 7).
• If the carrier supplies an external clock 3 the module will use it. Otherwise the module
will use the internal PCIe clock (refer to 6.9).
• The module is able to use a PCIe x4 connection or alternatively a PCIe x1 connection
(refer to 6.10).