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Overview
The Dell Chassis Management Controller (CMC) is a hot-pluggable systems
management hardware and software solution designed to provide remote
management capabilities and power control functions for Dell PowerEdge
M1000e chassis systems.
You can configure the CMC to send e-mail alerts or SNMP trap alerts for
warnings or errors related to temperatures, hardware misconfigurations,
power outages, and fan speeds.
The CMC, which has its own microprocessor and memory, is powered by the
modular chassis into which it is plugged. To get started with the CMC, see
"Installing and Setting Up the CMC" on page 29.
What’s New For This Release
This release of CMC supports the following features:
• Multi-chassis management, which allows up to 8 other chassis to be visible
from the lead chassis.
• Power Logging, which allows the user to collect power consumption
measurements to a remote server.
• Save and restore configuration on a host.
• Improvement of SEL log.
• GPL/Open source compliant.
• Dell 8/4Gbps Fibre Channel Pass through IOM.
• Dell M8428-k IOM.
• Brocade BR1741M-k Dual Port Mezzanine Card.
• Server Performance Over Power Redundancy mode for power
management.