Technical Product Specification

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Server Management Intel
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Server Board S5400SF TPS
Revision 2.02
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4.9 Event Filtering and Alerting
The Integrated BMC implements most of the IPMI 2.0 alerting features. The following features are
supported:
PEF
Alert-over-LAN
4.9.1 Platform Event Filtering
The Integrated BMC monitors system health and logs failure events into the SEL. Platform
event filtering provides a configurable mechanism to allow events to trigger alert actions. PEF
provides a flexible, general mechanism that enables the Integrated BMC to perform selectable
actions triggered by a configurable set of system events. The Integrated BMC supports the
following PEF actions:
Power off
Power cycle
Reset
Diagnostic interrupt
OEM action
Alerts
See the IPMI Specification, Version 2.0 for additional details of PEF operation.
4.9.2 Alert-over-LAN
Platform event trap (PET) alerts, standard and advanced, are supported over a LAN. Alert-over-
LAN is used to notify remote system management application about PEF-selected events,
regardless of the state of the server’s operating system. LAN alerts can be sent over any of the
LAN channels supported by a system, modulo the specific channel capabilities. The Integrated
BMC implements the following three OEM PEF parameters associated with platform event trap
alerts over the LAN:
PET OEM String (parameter 96)
This string, if defined, is included as part of the PET packet OEM data field.
Infinite Retry Alert Behavior (parameter 97)
A byte value where if equal to 1, indicates that alert-over-LAN should retry alerts until
they succeed.
UTC Offset (parameter 98)
This parameter provides a value for the UTC offset field in the PET packet.
The alert-over-LAN resource size is LAN Alert Destination Count = 4. See the IPMI Specification,
Version 2.0 for additional details on PET alerts.
4.9.3 Factory Default Event Filters
A maximum of 20 PEF table entries are supported. The following table describes the 12 factory-
preconfigured event filters. The remaining 8 entries are software configurable. Each PEF entry
contains 22 bytes of data for a maximum table size of 440 bytes.