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MIC-3392MIL User Manual 52

4.1 Introduction

The MIC-3392MILS fully supports the IPMI 2.0 interface and the PICMG 2.9 R1.0

specification. The Renesas H8S/2167 has been implemented as the IPMI controller /

Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) to run firmware and collect information.

The MIC-3392MILS IPMI firmware is sourced from Avocent, a provider of proven and

tested IPMI implementations in a wide range of mission-critical applications. The

BMC’s key features and functions are listed below.

! Compliant with IPMI specification, revision 2.0

! Compliant with PICMG 2.9 specification

! Environment monitoring (temperature and voltage)

! Power/Reset control via IPMI chassis command

! Complete SEL, SDR and FRU functionality

! FRU data capacity: 2 KB

! Provides 4 messaging interfaces

! One serial port

! One LPC interface

! One IPMB channel

! One LAN channel messaging via sideband NIC for out-of-band management

! Four I2C buses (including IPMB and SMBus) and two optional others

! Firmware Hub flashing and updating over serial port

! One hardware monitor

! One interrupt input

! Sensors threshold configuration

! Complete IPMI watchdog functionality (reset, power down, power cycle)

! Platform even filtering (PEF) and alert policies

! External Event Generation

4.2 Definitions

! BMC - (Baseboard Management Controller): This is the common abbrevia-

tion for an IPMI Baseboard Management Controller.

! IPMB - (Intelligent Platform Management Bus): A protocol defined for pass-

ing IPMI messages over a public I

C bus.

! IPMI - (Intelligent Platform Management Interface): A standardized system

management interface. Please refer to the IPMI Specification for more details.

! IPMIv2.0: Specifically version 2.0 of IPMI