Artesyn ATCA-8330 Installation and Use (April 2015) - Manual (Page 131)

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Intelligent Peripheral Management Controller
7.1 Functional Overview
The ATCA-8330 provides an intelligent hardware management system, as defined in the
AdvancedTCA® Base Specification (PICMG® 3.0; AMC.0). This system incorporates an
Intelligent Platform Management Controller (IPMC) based on the BMR-H8S-AMCc® reference
design from Pigeon Point Systems.
Pigeon Point Systems IPM Sentry products are consistent with all current PICMG specifications
as well as IPMI v1.5 compliant with specific 2.0 extensions.
The ATCA-8330 implements all the standard Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
commands and provides hardware interfaces for other system management features such as
Hot Swap control, LED control, power control, as well as temperature and voltage monitoring.
The IPMC also supports a Keyboard Controller Style (KCS) based host interface for direct
payload to IPMI communication.
The ATCA-8330 provides a rich feature set:
 HPM.1 firmware upgrades and crisis recovery
 IPMI messaging
 IPMI channels and sessions
 Sensor Data Records and SDR Repository
 FRU Inventory
 Sensors
 POST
 Asynchronous Event Notification
 Bios Boot Configuration Parameter
 Payload Boot Bank Selection
 Serial Line Selection
 SOL
 Settable Graceful Shutdown Timeout
 IPMI Hardware Watchdog Timer