User's Guide (1.0a)

Chapter 1: Introduction
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Chapter 1
Introduction
1-1 Overview
This user's manual covers the AOC-1UIPMI-B, AOC-IPMI20-E, AOC-1UIPMI-LANG
and AOC-LPIPMI-LANG add-on cards. These cards are highly efficient, highly com-
patible and easy-to-use IPMI cards. They allow the user to take advantage of the
BMC, a baseboard management controller installed on a server motherboard and
the IPMIView, an IPMI compliant management application software loaded in a PC,
to provide serial links between the main processor and other system components,
allowing for network interfacing via remote access. With an independent Hitachi
Renesas H8S processor built-in, these add-on cards provide the user with a solution
to ease the complex and expensive systems, allowing an administrator to access,
monitor, diagnose and manage network interfacing anywhere, anytime.
1-2 Features of IPMI Version 2.0 Software
The AOC-1UIPMI-B, AOC-IPMI20-E, AOC-1UIPMI-LANG and AOC-LPIPMI-LANG
add-on cards support the functionality of IPMI Version 2.0. The key features include
the following:
Supports IPMI 2.0 (IPMI over LAN and serial over LAN)
Supports Emergency Management Port (EMP): LAN
Shares LAN controller with main board
Supports Hardware Health Monitoring via IPMI
Supports Event Log Information
Offers OS (Operating System) Independency
Provides Network Management Security via Remote Access/Console Redirec
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Supports the following management tools: IPMIView, CLI (Command Line
Interface)
Supports RMCP+ Protocols
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