Password Protection; Bios Defaults; Platform Management - Advantech FWA-5020 User Manual

2.4.12.1

Password protection

The BIOS supports and administrator password to restrict access to the BIOS setup
menu to qualified and trusted personal, only.
2.4.12.2

BIOS defaults

The BIOS comes with a set of configuration parameters when shipped by Advantech
referred to as "Optimized Defaults" or "factory defaults". The user can change BIOS
settings via the setup menu either temporarily or permanently by saving the changes
as "User defaults".
The BIOS loads Optimized Defaults by the option "Restore Defaults; and loads User
defaults by the option "Restore User Defaults". If no User defaults have been defined,
the BIOS will do nothing.

2.4.13 Platform Management

A Nuvoton NCT7904 Hardware Monitor Chip (HWM) provides hardware monitoring
capabilities on the FWA-5020. The HWM chip is connector to the PCH's SMBus.
Standard software packages such as "lmsensors" can be used on the host to provide
sensor information under Linux. Advantech provides the required patch that adds
support for the HWM chip and a system specific configuration file.
Feature Details
1. Voltage Monitor
2. Temperature Monitor
3. FAN Speed / Control Monitor
-
All fans in same module are rotate same percentage speed. Each fan module has itself fan
status indicator used to show fan module status, when BMC detect fan speed.
4. PECI (PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT CONTROL INTERFACE)
Support PECI 1.0 / 2.0 / 3.0 full commands.
Support 2 CPU sockets and 2 domains per CPU address.
5. Watch Dog Timer function
- Provide System Reset
6. Case open function
-Intrusion detection go through this hardware monitor for rear top-cover open
detection. There is another front top-cover open detection through another hardware
monitor on NAMB-6520MGT management module.
-Both can be identified in firmware with different events.
Please contact your Advantech representative if you wish to receive the lmsensors
patch or, in case you want to implement your own hardware monitoring solution, to
obtain more details regarding the hardware implementation.
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