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TYAN M3291 Installation Manual

TYAN M3291 Installation Manual

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M3291 Installation Guide

Hardware Setup

1. 2 X 25 Pin SMDC Cable
M3291 use this cable for mainly communication between BMC and Motherboard

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  • Page 1: Hardware Setup

    M3291 Installation Guide Hardware Setup 1. 2 X 25 Pin SMDC Cable M3291 use this cable for mainly communication between BMC and Motherboard...
  • Page 2 2. 2 X 5 Pin Serial Cable for Serial over LAN This Cable is used for Serial over LAN(SOL). It connects the M3291 COM port (J2) and Motherboard on board COM2.
  • Page 3 3. NIC Port For IPMI out-of-band Function M3291 uses one of motherboard onboard NIC for IPMI out-of-band. Before using, please make sure which port M3291 used. You can refer to http://www.tyan.com/support/html/faq_tso.html motherboard Illustration Picture.

  • Page 4: Firmware Update

    Firmware Update 1. BIOS Update M3291 need BIOS support. So before using M3291, please make sure BIOS you used is IPMI enabled. If not, please update BIOS first. Users can refer to http://www.tyan.com/support/html/faq_tso.html M3291 Support List If you wan to know the detail about BIOS for IPMI, please refer the M3291 FAQ.
  • Page 5 2. Broadcom NIC Firmware Update Some motherboards use Broadcom NIC as IPMI NIC. User must load Broadcom NIC ASF firmware to enable the IPMI function. Users can get them from M3291 Driver CD or Tyan website. 1) copy all file to floppy 2) boot to DOS 3) run “asf5704.bat”...
  • Page 6 3. M3291 Firmware Update When M3291 production, it will load one default firmware. But it’s impossible to fit every motherboard. So before using M3291, User also need update M3291 motherboard specified firmware. M3291 Driver CD contains the firmware file. User can get the latest firmware from Tyan website.
  • Page 7 Configuration Before using M3291, users need do some configuration first, such as IP Address. Otherwise some IPMI function won’t work. Users can use the standard IPMI software to set. And Tyan also provide some utilities to do them. The most important configuration are LAN Configuration and User Password Setting.
  • Page 8 M3291 Thin Version Configuration Utility on DOS It support do configuration via command line. “uh8d /?” for the detail usage.
  • Page 9 “./uh8l –h” for detail usage. 4) UH8W.EXE M3291 Configuration Utility on Windows UH8W.EXE depends on the Intel IPMI Reference Driver. So users must install it when using this utility. About Intel IPMI Reference Driver installation, please refer to M3291 FAQ.
  • Page 10 1. LAN Configuration 1) IP Address Users can set M3291 IP Address as they want. M3291 share the LAN port with system OS. But IP address on M3291 can be either same or different with system IP address. Following is the instruction about how to set IP with Tyan utilities.
  • Page 11 User ID 2 Admin User ID 3 Callback User ID 4 User. User ID 5 Their default passwords are same with the user name. Users can change M3291 username and password as they want. But Tyan utility only support user password changing.
  • Page 12 Linux and Solaris. Users can use it to view most of IPMI jobs remotely. Detail please refer to ipmitool man page: http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net/manpage.html IPMITool 1.8.2 have some issue and only partly work on M3291. Please use the latest code from CVS server. Following is some example.
  • Page 13 Remote Power Control Serial Over LAN...
  • Page 15 Tyan server boards with ease and flexibility in a remote configuration. Compatibility TSO2.0 add the M3291 support, including the IPMI 2.0 SOL. And TSO 2.0 also can be used on old SMDC, such as M3289 and M3290. TSO is written by JAVA, so it’s easy to support Windows and Linux. Currently, we support...
  • Page 16 When Manager installation, you will be asked to select the External Network Interface, which is the NIC for communication between Manager and Console. TSO named network between Manager and Console as External Network, and Internal for Manager and SMDC.
  • Page 17 Console 1. Install JAVA 2. Install TSO Console, also need select External Network Interface...
  • Page 18 Installation under Linux 1. Mount the CD 2 .Execute the script file “install.sh” 3. Install Manager or Console You also need select External and Internal Network Interface...
  • Page 20 Usage Logon TSO Manager After execute the TSO Console, you will be asked to logon TSO Manager first. Please use the Manager system IP address, username and password of Manager system OS After logon Manager, you will see following screen:...
  • Page 21 SMDC Auto Discovery If you use TSO first time, please set the Discovery setting. For Intel NICs, “Sending Broadcast ASF Ping” it OK. For Broadcom NICS, as it cannot handle broadcase ASF package, you must choose scan IP You also can add SMDC node by yourself...
  • Page 22 Logon SMDC Select the SMDC node from left node tree and double click, you will see following screen. Please use the M3291 user account to logon.
  • Page 23 Sensor System Event Log...
  • Page 24 Firewall TSO Manager and Console will use the following 4 ports for firewall setup. UDP: 7777 20040 20060 TCP: 20010 21020 21021 21030 21031...