Users Guide - Platform Instrumentation Control

Intel Platform Instrumentation Control (PIC) Console User's Guide
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Managing Servers with PIC
Viewing / Configuring Sensor Information
To view or configure a sensor (such as voltage, temperature), do the following steps:
1. On the PIC main window, click beside a sensor name in the navigation pane to see the list
of available sensors.
2. Select an entry from the list.
3. Switch between the available tab pages (Sensor Settings, Alert Actions, Sensor
Information or Inventory Information) to view or update the information.
4. Click <Apply> for any changes made to the sensor configuration.
At any time you can change views to another sensor by selecting another component in the
navigation pane.
If you try to change your view and you have not saved any configuration changes using the Apply
button in the presentation pane, PIC prompts you to save or discard the changes before switching to
a new view.
Viewing System Information
To view system information (such as FRU, Operating System, BIOS, and SEL) on the managed
server or managed ICMB device, do the following steps:
1. On the PIC main window, click beside the System Information name in the PIC navigation
pane to see the list of options.
2. Select an entry from the list.
3. View the information in the corresponding tab page in the presentation pane.
At any time you can change views to another sensor by selecting another component in the
navigation pane.
On components that support FRU data, this inventory information is also displayed on the
Inventory Information tab page associated with that component.
System Event Log
The PIC Console software displays the System Event Log (SEL) maintained by the managed
server’s platform hardware. The SEL is a collection of log entries stored in nonvolatile flash
memory.
The Platform Instrumentation automatically extracts event information from the SEL and triggers
any user-configured actions associated with that event. The Platform Instrumentation clears the
SEL when it is near an out-of-space condition. The PIC Console software also displays the SEL
logging status (whether the SEL is Active or Inactive).
The SEL records displayed through PIC include additional timestamp information not available
when reading the raw SEL file through DPC or Client SSU. The platform instrumentation code