Supermicro IPMI 2.0 Card manual

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    IPMI View User’s Guide Vers ion 2.6 Copyright © 2003-2007 Super Micro Computer, Inc., All rights re served.[...]

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    - 1 - Index 1. OVERVIEW ........................... ................................. ................................ ........................ .. ................................ ................................ ... 2 2. SYSTEM MA NAGEMENT ................................... ................................ ....................................... [...]

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    - 2 - IPMI View (IPMI Over LAN) 1. Overview IPMI View is managem ent software based on IPMI specification version 1.5 - 2.0. IPMI View sends IPMI messages to and from the BMC (Base Management Card) on a rem otely managed system. IPMI messages are encapsulated in RMCP (Remote Managem ent Control Protocol) packets called “datagrams”. This method [...]

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    - 3 - 2. System Management Figure 2-1 As shown in Figure 2-1, there are s everal components in the IPMI View window (Figure 2-2): 1) Menu Bar : contains functions allowing y ou to add/delete systems or groups and save configurations. 2) Tool Bar: contains funct ions allowing y ou to quick execution. 3) Logo : Press Logo to visit Supermicro’ s web[...]

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    - 4 - Figure 2-2 • ToolBar As shown in Figure 2 -3, toolbar helps y ou quickly execute functions which may be used frequently. You can quickly switch server or group management. The received trap info will show in this toolbar once got trap. Add a new System Sa ve configuration Disc over IPMI devic e Switch to server m anageme nt Switch to group [...]

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    - 5 - Figure 2-4 As shown in Figure 2 -4, click “File>New…>System” to add a new syst em to IPMI View. An “Add a new system…” dialog box will pop up as shown in Figur e 2-5. Figure 2-5 In the “Add a new system” dialog box, type in the desired Sy stem Na me for the m anaged system and the correct IP address, as well as a descrip[...]

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    - 6 - In the “Add a new group” dialog box, type in the desired Group Name and description. Then click OK. • Discover New Systems in a Specified Net work IPMI View includes a function that allows the user to collect candidate system information in order to build their information int o a System List (see Figure 2-7). The user may specify the I[...]

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    - 7 - Figure 2-8 • Modify System Select a system in the System Window y ou want to modify and then click “Edit>Modify …>System” from the pull-down menu shown in Figure 2-8 to modify it . You can also right click on a system in the Sy stem Window and then select “Mod ify” in the pop-up menu to modify it. • Delete System Select a [...]

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    - 8 - Figure 2-9 • Delete Group Select a group in the Group Window you want to delete a nd then click “Edit>Delete…>Group” from the pull-down menu shown in Figure 2-8 to delete it. You can also right click on a group in the Group Window and then select ”Delete” in the pop-up menu to dele te it. • Join a group Select a group in t[...]

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    - 9 - Figure 2-10 Figure 2-11 • Selecting an IPMI View management session When more than one system is m anaged by IPMI View at the same time , you can select which opened manageme nt session you want to control by double clicking on sy stem’s name in the System Window or by select ing “Session><<System n ame>>” in the pull-d[...]

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    - 10 - 3. Login • Login In Figure 3-1, double click the system in the System Window y ou want to mana ge. A login screen along with some information about the managed system will appear in the Viewing Window. Type in the logi n ID and password and click the Login button to log in . When a login is successful, the connection information will be sh[...]

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    - 11 - The default Login ID is “ADMIN”,,which has the default password of “ADMIN”. Both the Login ID and Password are case-sensitive. In the IPMI design, an MD5 algorithm will encrypt the password when it’s transmitted throug h the network . (If you are connec ting to IPM I 2.0 RMC P+, al l the data will be tra nsm ited by an en crypte d [...]

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    - 12 - 4. IPM Device Figure 4-1 Clicking the IPM Device tab of the IPMI View management se ssion in the Viewing Window ( shown in Figure 4-1) wil l display some information and functions of the syst em’s BMC firmware. • Device In format ion This shows the revision levels of the BMC and IPMI firm ware. • ACPI System Power Stat e This shows the[...]

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    - 13 - Graceful Reboot: same as the reboot function i n Windows. Graceful Power Cycle: this f unction is a c omb ination of the Grac eful S hutdown and P ower Up functions. The Power Cycle function will shut down the managed s ystem for a few seconds and then power up the system. Graceful power control will send an event to the Sy stem Event Log (n[...]

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    - 14 - 5. System Event Log Figure 5-1 Clicking on the Event Log tab of the IPMI View ma nagement session in the Viewing Window (shown in Figure 5-1) gives you detailed information on the Sy stem Eve nt Log for the BMC. It shows the System Event Log version, number of log entries, free space for the System Event Log and the times of recently added a[...]

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    - 15 - • Clear S ystem Event Lo g Clicking the Clear All Entries butto n clears the logged system event s on the BMC. The total event log space is 16 KB. When all this space is used, any incoming eve nt will be lost. The user has to clear the syste m event log manually as needed . • Time stamp of System Event Log and Time Zone To set the time s[...]

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    - 16 - 6. Sensor s Figure 6-1 Clicking on the Sensors tab of the IPMI View management session in the Viewing Window (as shown in Figure 6-1) provides you wi th detailed information on the sensors monitored by the BMC. It shows the reading of supported voltages and fan speeds and temperatures m onitored by th e BMC. The current reading is shown in y[...]

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    - 17 - Figure 6-2 • Show History IPMI View provides a history chart for fans, temperatures and voltages. The yell ow line indicates the reading corresponding to the sensor. A red line indi cates a high or low limit. A blue line indicates the base value of 0 (zero). Check the “Show History” box to display these charts, as shown in Figure 6-3. [...]

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    - 18 - 7. BMC Setting (Administrator only) Figure 7-1 Clicking on the BMC Setting tab of the IPMI View management session in the Viewing Window (as shown in Figure 7-1) gives you detail ed information on the BMC LAN Configuration, SNMP trap configuration and serial communication port of the BMC. In order to support the power-down state management c[...]

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    - 19 - values, especiall y for t he LAN MAC. If y ou enter t h e wrong LAN MAC, IPMI View will not be able to connec t to that system an y more. If you acci dentally enter a wrong LAN MAC value, you may use the IPnMAC.exe command in the IPMI Solution/Uti lity subfolder on this CD to update it. To activate IPnMAC.exe,,which is a DOS command, you mus[...]

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    - 20 - 8. Users Figure 8-1 (For IPMI 2.0) Figure 8-2 (For IPMI 1.5)[...]

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    - 21 - Clicking on the Users tab of the IPMI View management session in the Viewing Window (as shown in Figure 8-1 and 8-2) gives you detail ed information on the Users mana gement, and the paging severity thresholds for IPMI 1.5. We strongly suggest you change passwords immediately to prevent malicious users getting control before you. • USERS T[...]

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    - 22 - Figure 8-3 • FRU (Only for IPMI 2.0) Here useful information may be found about the board and product, for example the serial number, part number and part name of the board and product. • PAGING / SEVERITY (Only for IPMI 1.5) The paging severity settings defin e when users will be notified of entries in the system event log (SEL). The fo[...]

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    - 23 - 9. Text Console Redirectio n (SOL, Serial Over LAN) Figure 9-1 On the Text Console tab of the IPMI View managem ent session in the Viewing Window (as shown in Figure 9-1), there is a func tion that allows you to remotely control the managed system from a text m ode console. Click the Start button to start the text console redirection. During[...]

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    - 24 - Redirection on Windows 2003, Special Administratio n Console (SAC) must be e nabled. The following instruct ion is used to enable SAC: 1. Enable Console Redirection in BIOS, and set it to COM 2 (or COM B) 2. Modify boot .ini in C:. Boot.ini i s a hidden file. Below is an example of boot.ini [boot loader] redirect=com2 redirectbaudrate=19200[...]

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    - 25 - 10. Video Console Redirection (KVM over IP) Video Console Redirection is a new feature included in Supermicro Intell igent Management (SIM) Module. In the Video Console Redirection tab, the remote screen will be redirected to IPMIView if this function is enabled. BIOS POST, BIOS settings, DOS, Windows or Linux OS screens can all be redirecte[...]

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    - 26 - Toolbar As shown in Figure 1 0-2, there are several tool buttons used for the video console. Start Video Redirection Stop Video Redirection Full Sc reen Auto Adjust Screen Screen Ca pture Op tions Quick Shot Open or Close Quick Shot Panel Send Ctrl+Alt+Del to Rem ote Zoom Out Selec t Percentage f or Scaling Screen Zoom In Figure 10-2 Video C[...]

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    - 27 -  Screen Capture This button i s for capturing screenshots of remote managed systems. You will see a file save dialog b ox with a preview image. Select the directory and filename to save it. The file form at can be PNG or JPG.  Quick Shot This button is for quick screenshots. You will first need to specify a director y for saved quick s[...]

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    - 28 -  Zoom Out This button is for zooming out. The maxim um zoom out percentage is 10%. Please re fer to Figure 10-6. Figure 10-6  Select percentage for Scaling Screen This is a combo box for selecting the percentage of scree n scaling, either 10%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, 200%, 250% or 300%. An addit ional selection allows y ou to scale to fit[...]

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    - 29 - o Video Settings: Here you can give specifi ed detailed settings for t he video. Please refer to Figure 10-8. Figure 10-8 Vi deo Settings o Refresh Video: Refreshes the video sc reen. o Soft Keyboard: A virtual keyboard fo r easy input. It also provides localized keyboard mapping. Please refer to Figure 10-9. Figure 10-9 Soft Keyboard o Loca[...]

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    - 30 - This section shows the frames per sec ond and Input (Kbytes per second) and Output (by tes per second).  Share Mode This icon indicates the remote screen share status. If there only one user has started the video redirection of a remote m anaged system, the icon will look like . If two or more users start the vide o redirection of the sam[...]

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    - 31 - 11. Virtual Media The Supermicro Intelligent Management (SIM) Module provides a Virtual Media feature, which includes a Virtual USB Floppy , a CD-ROM im age and Drive Redirection. Figure 11-1 shows the Virtual Media GUI. The Vir tual Media Status section displays the current virtual devi ce status. T here are t wo virt ual dr ives avai lable[...]

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    - 32 - As shown in Figure 11-2, click “Open File” to select the file that you wish to upload to the host dri ve selected. Click “Upload” to upload the floppy image. Please wait for the upload to complete. The virtual floppy will be activated after the floppy image is uploaded. Figure 11-2  CD-ROM Image on Windows Share Please refer to Fi[...]

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    - 33 - Loca l Driv e Lis t : This box displays a list of local drives available for remote acc ess. Select from the list a local drive that you want to make accessible for a remote server. Refresh List : Click th is butto n to refre sh the loca l drive list. Write Support : Check this button to allow the remote operating system to ha ve write acces[...]

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    - 34 - 12. Group Management Group management is a way to manage multiple servers at t he same time. For example, you can query the fan sensor reading from multiple servers and note their differences. Also, you can simultaneously power on or off multiple servers at the sam e time. As shown in Figure 12-1, click Manage > Group to show group manage[...]

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    - 35 -  Fan  Temperature  Voltage  Sensors  Event Log  ACPI  Power  LAN Config  FRU  Text Console  General Info Figure 12-3  Fan Figure 12-4 shows the view after selecting multiple servers and clicking on the Fan tab. You can use Ctrl+Click, Shift+Click or mouse drag for selecting servers. Clicking the “Query?[...]

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    - 36 -  Temperature Figu re 12-5 shows a screen after select ing mul tipl e servers an d click ing the Temperat ure tab . On clicking the “Query” button, IPMIVi ew will collect the temperature readings from the selected servers. The information listed in the table show the temperature status of the selec ted servers. Figure 12-5  Voltage [...]

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    - 37 -  Sensors Figure 12-7 shows the screen when selecting multiple servers and clicking the Sensors tab. Clicking the “Query” button wil l then have IPMIView collect the sensor readings from the selected servers. The information listed in the t able show the sensor status of the selected servers. The sensors here are chassis status and pow[...]

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    - 38 -  ACPI Figure 12-9 shows the screen af ter selecting m ultipl e servers and clicking the ACPI tab. Clicking the “Query” butto n will have IPMIVie w collect the ACPI stat e from the sel ected servers. The tabl e displays the ACPI state of the selected servers. Figure 12-9  Power Figure 12-10 shows selecting multiple servers and cli c[...]

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    - 39 - shows the result s of a query and upd ate. The clear button is for clearing the text field only ; it will not clear the actual LAN configuration from the server. Figure 12-1 1  FRU Figure 12-12 shows a screen after selecting a singl e server and clicking the FRU tab. Clicking the “Query” button has IPMIView get the FR U information fr[...]

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    - 40 - power off and reset command s for an easy way to turn on or off a remote server. The Encode checkbox is for RMCP+ encodin g. Check it to enable packet enco ding bet ween IPMI View and a serv er. Figure 12-1 3  General Info Figure 12-14 shows the screen aft er selecting multiple servers and clicking the Gen eral Info tab. Selecting the fie[...]

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    - 41 - 13. Trap Receiver The Tr ap Receiv er is a uti lity used fo r receiv ing t raps fro m the BMC. In the even t of a sensor error or a sensor reading that exceeds a threshold, the BMC will send SNMP traps to the destinations set in the BMC. The Trap Receiver is e xecuted on the destination site and receive s the SNMP trap from multiple senders [...]

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    - 42 - o Start : start s the Trap Receiver. o Stop: stops the Trap Receiver. o Save: saves the received traps into a file. o Load: loads a saved trap file into the Trap Receiver. o Clear: clears all the traps i n the trap list. o Email: displays an Email alert setting dialog box (see Figure 12-3). Fill in the SMTP server, From (email address) and T[...]

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    - 43 - Once a category has been selected, the fi lter condition wil l be shown at the b ottom of the trap list . See Figure 12-5 as an example: the filter is “Sender = 192.168.10.245, Community = public, Sensor = CPU 1”. The trap list display s only those traps whose contents are included in each of the three filters. Figure 12-5  Trap Struc[...]

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    - 44 -  Receiving a Trap When the Trap Receiver receives a trap from the BMC, an alert bar will pop up o n the screen and remain for 10 seconds to notify you that a trap has occurred. In addition, an email alert will be sent out according to the i nformation field settings in the Email Alert dialog b ox. Please refer to Figure 12-7. The email co[...]

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    - 45 - Appendix A: Update Firmware for SIM IPMI 1. Select a remote m anaged system on the System list and click “File > Update IPMI Firmware” to start the firmware update. 2. Click the “Open” button to select the firmware then Click “Start” to continue. 3. A login dialog will appear. Please input the Login ID and Password. The privil[...]

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    - 46 - 4. A firmware information di alog will appear. It shows detailed infor mation on the current and new firmware. Click “Yes” to continue. 5. The firmware file will start to upload. It may take few m inutes. 6. Plea se wait for the fir mware to upload. Once the upload i s compl eted, t he BMC wil l start fl ashing t he firmwa re intern ally[...]