Server Management Ver. 2.01 User Manual
Introduction
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Server Management System Ver 2.01 is designed to simplify management of single servers. It keeps
24-hour watching on a server to ensure its normal operation. For servers with IPMI (Intelligent Platform
Management Interface) support, SMS can also manage the IPMI hardware components through the
software interface.
SMS provides powerful functions as below:
• Assets Control: SMS provides the detailed hardware configuration information of the server.
• Status Monitor: SMS monitors the real-time status of the server, and provides the real-time
information of CPU, Memory, Partition and NIC. For servers with IPMI support, the real-time
values of IPMI sensors will also be provided. Thus, the administrator can easily know whether the
server is in healthy status or not and take corresponding actions if necessary, or set thresholds and
define event triggers to realize automatic management of the system status.
• Event Handler: SMS provides two kinds of event handling mechanism – SMS event trigger and
IPMI PEF. The SMS event trigger is a mechanism for triggering responding actions automatically
when specific events occur to the server. This mechanism helps to solve the problems in the first
time. IPMI PEF (Platform Event Filter) provides a mechanism for configuring the BMC to take
selected actions on event messages, so that the IPMI hardware can be protected.
• Schedule Task: Administrators can define tasks for the SMS agent to carry out at the specified
time, such as reboot, shutdown, or launching executable files.
• Report: The SMS report is a summary of the relevant information of a certain period and can be
sent to the administrator or other server managers through mail server.
• Console Redirect: SOL (Serial Over LAN) is supported currently. When the host server restarts,
users can observe POST boot messages and initiate ROM-based setup routines to configure the
hardware of the host server remotely. Under OS mode, its output is redirected to serial port, such
as Linux GRUB (Grand Unified Bootloader), etc. Thus, users can view and control the host
server.