Supermicro IPMI 2.0 Card User's Guide

IPMI View User’s Guide Version 2.6 Copyright © 2003-2007 Super Micro Computer, Inc., All rights reserved.

- 9 - Figure 2-10 Figure 2-11 • Selecting an IPMI View management session When more than one system is managed by IPMI View at the same time,

- 10 -3. Login • Login In Figure 3-1, double click the system in the System Window you want to manage. A login screen along with some information

- 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 de

- 12 -4. IPM Device Figure 4-1 Clicking the IPM Device tab of the IPMI View management session in the Viewing Window (shown in Figure 4-1) will d

- 13 -Graceful Reboot: same as the reboot function in Windows. Graceful Power Cycle: this function is a combination of the Graceful Shutdown and Pow

- 14 -5. System Event Log Figure 5-1 Clicking on the Event Log tab of the IPMI View management session in the Viewing Window (shown in Figure 5-1

- 15 -• Clear System Event Log Clicking the Clear All Entries button clears the logged system events on the BMC. The total event log space is 16 K

- 16 -6. Sensors Figure 6-1 Clicking on the Sensors tab of the IPMI View management session in the Viewing Window (as shown in Figure 6-1) provid

- 17 - Figure 6-2 • Show History IPMI View provides a history chart for fans, temperatures and voltages. The yellow line indicates the reading co

- 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

- 1 - Index 1. OVERVIEW...

- 19 -values, especially for the LAN MAC. If you enter the wrong LAN MAC, IPMI View will not be able to connect to that system any more. If you a

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

- 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 detailed informa

- 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

- 23 -9. Text Console Redirection (SOL, Serial Over LAN) Figure 9-1 On the Text Console tab of the IPMI View management session in the Viewing Wi

- 24 -Redirection on Windows 2003, Special Administration Console (SAC) must be enabled. The following instruction is used to enable SAC: 1. Enabl

- 25 -10. Video Console Redirection (KVM over IP) Video Console Redirection is a new feature included in Supermicro Intelligent Management (SIM) Mod

- 26 - Toolbar As shown in Figure 10-2, there are several tool buttons used for the video console. Start Video Redirection Stop Video Redirection

- 27 - Screen Capture This button is for capturing screenshots of remote managed systems. You will see a file save dialog box with a preview image

- 28 -  Zoom Out This button is for zooming out. The maximum zoom out percentage is 10%. Please refer to Figure 10-6.

- 2 -IPMI View (IPMI Over LAN) 1. Overview IPMI View is management software based on IPMI specification version 1.5 - 2.0. IPMI View sends IPMI

- 29 - o Video Settings: Here you can give specified detailed settings for the video. Please refer to Figure 10-8. Figure 10-8 Video Settings o R

- 30 -This section shows the frames per second and Input (Kbytes per second) and Output (bytes per second).  Share Mode This icon indicates the re

- 31 -11. Virtual Media The Supermicro Intelligent Management (SIM) Module provides a Virtual Media feature, which includes a Virtual USB Floppy, a

- 32 - As shown in Figure 11-2, click “Open File” to select the file that you wish to upload to the host drive selected. Click “Upload” to upload the

- 33 -Local Drive List: This box displays a list of local drives available for remote access. Select from the list a local drive that you want to mak

- 34 -12. Group Management Group management is a way to manage multiple servers at the same time. For example, you can query the fan sensor reading

- 35 -  Fan  Temperature  Voltage  Sensors  Event Log  ACPI  Power  LAN Config  FRU  Text Console  General Info Figure 12-3

- 36 -  Temperature Figure 12-5 shows a screen after selecting multiple servers and clicking the Temperature tab. On clicking the “Query” button, IP

- 37 -  Sensors Figure 12-7 shows the screen when selecting multiple servers and clicking the Sensors tab. Clicking the “Query” button will then hav

- 38 -  ACPI Figure 12-9 shows the screen after selecting multiple servers and clicking the ACPI tab. Clicking the “Query” button will have IPMIView

- 3 -2. System Management Figure 2-1 As shown in Figure 2-1, there are several components in the IPMI View window (Figure 2-2): 1) Menu Bar: cont

- 39 -shows the results of a query and update. The clear button is for clearing the text field only; it will not clear the actual LAN configuration f

- 40 -power off and reset commands for an easy way to turn on or off a remote server. The Encode checkbox is for RMCP+ encoding. Check it to enable p

- 41 -13. Trap Receiver The Trap Receiver is a utility used for receiving traps from the BMC. In the event of a sensor error or a sensor reading tha

- 42 -o Start: starts the Trap Receiver. o Stop: stops the Trap Receiver. o Save: saves the received traps into a file. o Load: loads a saved trap

- 43 -Once a category has been selected, the filter condition will be shown at the bottom of the trap list. See Figure 12-5 as an example: the filter

- 44 -  Receiving a Trap When the Trap Receiver receives a trap from the BMC, an alert bar will pop up on the screen and remain for 10 seconds t

- 45 -Appendix A: Update Firmware for SIM IPMI 1. Select a remote managed system on the System list and click “File > Update IPMI Firmware” to st

- 46 -4. A firmware information dialog will appear. It shows detailed information on the current and new firmware. Click “Yes” to continue. 5. The

- 4 - Figure 2-2 • ToolBar As shown in Figure 2-3, toolbar helps you quickly execute functions which may be used frequently. You can quickly switc

- 5 - Figure 2-4 As shown in Figure 2-4, click “File>New…>System” to add a new system to IPMI View. An “Add a new system…” dialog box will

- 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 Netw

- 7 - Figure 2-8 • Modify System Select a system in the System Window you want to modify and then click “Edit>Modify…>System” from the pull-

- 8 - Figure 2-9 • Delete Group Select a group in the Group Window you want to delete and then click “Edit>Delete…>Group” from the pull-dow