Embedded Platform Debug - Intel S2600CO series User Manual

Platform Management Functional Overview
 For any abnormal status LED state, Virtual Front Panel will get the reason behind the
abnormal or status LED changes and displayed in VFP side.
 As Virtual Front Panel uses the chassis control command for power actions. It will not
log the Front button press event since Logging the front panel press event for Virtual
Front Panel press will mislead the administrator.
For Reset through Virtual Front Panel, the reset will be done by a Chassis control
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command.
 For Reset through Virtual Front Panel, the restart cause will be because of Chassis
control command.
 During Power action, Power button/Reset button should not accept the next action until
current Power action is complete and the acknowledgment from BMC is received.
 EWS will provide a valid message during Power action until it completes the current
Power action.
 The VFP does not have any effect on whether the front panel is locked by Set Front
Panel Enables command.
 The chassis ID LED provides a visual indication of a system being serviced. The state of
the chassis ID LED is affected by the following actions:
 Toggled by turning the chassis ID button on or off.
 There is no precedence or lock-out mechanism for the control sources. When a new
request arrives, previous requests are terminated. For example, if the chassis ID button
is pressed, then the chassis ID LED changes to solid on. If the button is pressed again,
then the chassis ID LED turns off.
 Note that the chassis ID will turn on because of the original chassis ID button press and
will reflect in the Virtual Front Panel after VFP sync with BMC. Virtual Front Panel will not
reflect the chassis LED software blinking by the software command as there is no
mechanism to get the chassis ID Led status.
 Only Infinite chassis ID ON/OFF by the software command will reflect in EWS during
automatic /manual EWS sync up with BMC.
 Virtual Front Panel help should available for virtual panel module.
 At present, NMI button in VFP is disabled in Intel
Platforms. It can be used in future.
6.10.15

Embedded Platform Debug

The Embedded Platform Debug feature supports capturing low-level diagnostic data (applicable
MSRs, PCI config-space registers, and so on). This feature allows a user to export this data into
a file that is retrievable from the embedded web GUI, as well as through host and remote IPMI
methods, for the purpose of sending to an Intel
The files are compressed, encrypted, and password protected. The file is not meant to be
viewable by the end user but rather to provide additional debugging capability to an Intel
support engineer.
A list of data that may be captured using this feature includes but is not limited to:
 Platform sensor readings – This includes all "readable" sensors that can be accessed by
the BMC FW and have associated SDRs populated in the SDR repository. This does not
include any "event-only" sensors. (All BIOS sensors and some BMC and ME sensors are
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engineer for an enhanced debugging capability.
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Intel® Server Board S2600CO Family TPS
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