Artesyn ATCA-7368 Installation and Use (June 2014) - Manual (Page 93)

Functional Description
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5.12 Serial Over LAN
Serial Over LAN (SOL) enables suitably designed blades and servers to transparently redirect a
serial character stream of a baseboard UART to/from a remote client via LAN over RMCP+
sessions. This enables users at remote consoles to access the serial port of a blade/server and
interact with a text-based BIOS console, operating system, command line interfaces, and serial
text-based applications.
The IPMC provides a dedicated sideband connection (SMBus) to the Base Interface Ethernet
controller. Data from the payload serial redirection is routed thru the sideband connection to
the Base I/F. Vice versa, the Ethernet controller filters packets based on either MAC address,
RMCP port number, or IP address and forwards them to the serial redirection over the sideband
interface.
Client software like openIPMI is required to enable SOL and to communicate with the SOL
based serial console.
5.13 IPMI Over LAN
IPMI messages can be transferred over LAN (Base interface) using the RMCP protocol, as
defined in the IPMI v1.5 specification, or using the RMCP+ protocol extension, as defined in the
IPMI v2.0 specification. The RMCP/RMCP+ packets are formatted to contain IPMI request and
response messages, plus additional messages for discovery and authentication.
The IPMI-over-LAN functionality is supported at a level that allows the Serial-over-LAN feature
to be implemented.
5.14 USB 2.0 Interface
The ICH10R provides internal USB1.1/ USB 2.0 host controllers with up to twelve USB 2.0 ports.
Two ports are routed to the faceplate, one port is used onboard to connect a USB 2.0 SSD User
Flash Module and one port is routed to the RTM. The ports available at the faceplate are routed
to a dual stacked connector. The ports are USB 2.0 compliant.