Block Diagram of IPMI
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Showing posts with label Server Technologies - IPMI. Show all posts
Monday, July 6, 2009
What is IPMI?
1. What is "Platform Management"?
- Monitoring and control functions that are built in to the platform hardware and primarily used for the purpose of monitoring the health of the system hardware (includes monitoring elements such as System Temperatures, voltages, fans, power supplies, bus errors, system physical security etc)
- Inventory, monitoring, logging and recovery functions
2. What is "Intelligent Platform Management (IPM)"?
- The above functions available independent of the main processors, BIOS and OS.
- Also available when the system is in powered down state.
3. What is "Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)"?
- Hardware level interface specification providing "above" functions, that can be exposed thro' standard management software interfaces such as DMI, WMI, CIM, SNMP etc (see fig below)
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