Advanced Platform Management; Hardware And Environmental Monitoring - Advantech sky-8100 User Manual

2.4.4 Advanced Platform Management

Advanced Platform Management is supported via an integrated BMC running IPMI2.0
compliant system management firmware. Several enhancements have been made to
standard white box server management code to enhance reliability and serviceability of
the system including but not limited to:
- Improved thermal management to cover special scenarios as well as fan degradation
/ failure
- Chassis intrusion and FRU presence detection
- Redundant BMC and BIOS flashes for maximum reliability
- Fail safe BMC and BIOS upgrades using industry standard HPM.1 mechanisms and
tools including automatic rollback on an upgrade failure
- Remote updates of firmware as long as primary power is connected to the unit
- BIOS Watchdog for reliable POST process and improved POST code sensor
- Time synchronization between the BMC and x86 host at startup for consistent event
logs
- System FRU Information synchronization to the host via standard DMI tables
- Large system event log for efficient troubleshooting
- Capability to log system events from the x86 host
- Enhanced security (more information available under NDA)

2.4.4.1 Hardware and Environmental Monitoring

BMC monitors all critical voltages on the SKY-8100:
- Main system voltages (12V, 5V, 3.3V)
- Standby voltages (5V_SB, 3.3V_SB)
- RTC battery
- CPU core and IO voltages
- DRAM voltages
- PCH voltages
Moreover, the following temperatures are supervised:
- Air inlet and outlet temperatures
- CPU temperatures
- DIMM temperatures (if DIMMs used support a temperature sensor)
- PCH temperature
- PSU temperature (via PMBus)
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