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AST2150 IPMI Configuration Guide
Version 1.1
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  • Page 1 Corporation and has been reviewed for accuracy and reliability prior to printing. MiTAC assumes no liability whatsoever, and disclaims any express or implied ® warranty, relating to sale and/or use of TYAN products including liability or warranties relating to fitness for a particular purpose or merchantability. MiTAC retains the right to make changes to product descriptions and/or specifications at any time, without notice.
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Contents 1. IPMI OS Drivers and Open Source Software........3 1.1 Windows IPMI Driver ................3 1.2 Open IPMI Driver on Linux..............3 1.3 IPMITool and Other Open Source Software ........3 2. ASTER GUI ....................5 2.1 ASTER GUI Overview................5 2.2 System Information ................
  • Page 3: Ipmi Os Drivers And Open Source Software

    If you use old version Linux Kernel, you need to replace module “ipmi_si” with “ipmi_kcs” Note that TYAN motherboard BIOS encodes IPMI Base IO address at 0xCA2 in its DMI table IPMI entry, any generic OS IPMI drivers should have no problem to support it.
  • Page 4 NOTE...
  • Page 5: Aster Gui

    2. ASTER GUI 2.1 ASTER GUI Overview The AST2150 has a user-friendly Graphics User Interface (GUI) called the Aster GUI. It is designed to be easy to use. It has a low learning curve because it uses a standard Internet browser. You can expect to be up and running in less than five minutes.
  • Page 6: System Information

    2.2 System Information This page shows system power on status and firmware revision and its release date.
  • Page 7: Server Health

    2.3 Server Health This page contains options to show motherboard sensor readings and events. SDR, Sensor reading, Sensor events (System event log), and PEF (Platform event filters) are implemented in compliant with ipmi2.0 specification.
  • Page 8: Sensor Reading

    2.3.1 Sensor Reading...
  • Page 9: Sensor Reading With Thresholds

    2.3.2 Sensor Reading with Thresholds...
  • Page 10: Event Log

    2.3.3 Event Log...
  • Page 11: Configuration

    2.4 Configuration This page contains options to configure Alerts, Mouse mode, Network, SMTP, Users, and Date Time NTP Settings.
  • Page 12: Alerts

    2.4.1 Alerts This page lists configured alert destinations, use modify button to configure it, or send a test alert to the destination. This Modify Alert page contains drop down menu’s and fields to configure alert types (email, SNMP traps), event severity, destination IP/Email address, and subject etc.
  • Page 14: Mouse Mode

    2.4.2 Mouse Mode This configuration depends on the OS installed on Local Host. Note, it’s OS on local host with AST2150, not the remote console. Most modern Windows versions(2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008) and Mac OS X, use the Absolute Mode. Relative mode is used by most Linux distributions (SuSE, RHEL) and older operating system like Windows 95/98.
  • Page 15: Network

    2.4.3 Network Use this page to view and configure network settings.
  • Page 16: Smtp

    2.4.4 SMTP For email alert, Enter and Save the SMTP mail server IP in this page.
  • Page 17: Users

    2.4.5 Users Use this page to add, modify, and delete users. You may select “modify user” and then change each user’s name, password, and privileges.
  • Page 18: Date Time/Ntp Settings

    2.4.6 Date Time/NTP Settings Select options to set date/time.
  • Page 19: Remote Control

    2.5 Remote Control This page allows user to perform various remote operations such as “Console Redirection” , “Power Control” and “ Other Control”.
  • Page 20: Remote Console Redirection

    2.5.1 Remote Console Redirection Press “Java Console” button to invoke JViewer to start KVM-over-IP session. For IPMI only SKU, button “Java Console” will be grayed out and make sure users couldn’t use KVM-over-IP feature.
  • Page 22 Use JViewer <Video> menu to stop/restart/exit console redirect session.
  • Page 23 To avoid OS to intercept and interpret special key combinations, you may need to use this drop down menu to send special Key combinations to remote OS.
  • Page 24 Select <Mouse sync > to allow mouse work correctly within the JViewer redirected remote screen (in sync with remote OS). Press <alt-M> to release “mouse sync” and return mouse control to local OS.
  • Page 25 Remote CDROM /Floppy redirection selection.
  • Page 26 Choose a local CDROM drive to redirect. Note that you need to configure “Boot order” on remote station (via remote station BIOS Setup, after select CDROM to redirect) before you can let the remote station to boot from the redirected CDROM .
  • Page 27 Select <Options> menu to configure KVM-over-IP Video engine.
  • Page 28: Remote Power Controls

    2.5.2 Remote Power Controls Select options in this page to reset, power off, power on, or power cycle the remote station.
  • Page 29: Other Controls

    2.5.3 Other Controls Select options in this page to chassis ID LED check, clear CMOS and local lock panel control the remote station.
  • Page 30: Maintenance

    2.6 Maintenance Need to “Enter Update Mode” in order to flash new firmware. Select firmware to upload and then press “update firmware” button to proceed firmware update.
  • Page 32 NOTE...
  • Page 33: Bmc Port Number

    3. BMC Port Number This section will list a table of the BMC Port numbers.   Web: 80, 443 KVM: 7578 CD-Media: 5120 BMC Port Number FD-Media: 5123 SSH (Smash): 22 RMCP (IPMI): 623 UPnP: 1900  ...

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