Fujitsu IRMC S2/S3 Manual De Usuario

iRMC S2/S3

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The iRMC S2/S3 makes the BMC functions available over the IPMI interface. 

The “Intelligent Platform Management” initiative is a response to the increasing 
complexity of modern server systems. A number of manufacturers have joined 
this initiative in order to come up with a new solution for monitoring these server 
systems.

The term “Intelligent Platform Management” expresses the core aspect of this 
approach to the solution: Functions for monitoring and recovery of systems are 
implemented directly in the hardware and firmware for platform management.

The objective was to define a standardized, abstract and message-based 
interface between the central system controller (Baseboard Management 
Controller - BMC) and intelligent platform management hardware.

The standardization committees combined the central characteristics of various 
platform management modules into standardized descriptions.

The IPMI specification defines:

“IPMI is a hardware level interface specification that is ‘management 
software neutral’ providing monitoring and control functions that can be 
exposed through standard management software interfaces such as 
DMI, WMI, CIM, SNMP, etc. As a hardware level interface, it sits at the 
bottom of a typical management software stack” [see section 

].